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How hard would it be to convert a Large Silar percussion lock to flint? Can a pan and frizzen be attached without heavily modifying the lockplate? Expiring minds want to know.
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Converting Percussion Lock to Flint
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The Evil Mike Brooks
just buy a silrr flintlock and put it in the gun.
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Trying to replicate a frontier reconversion.
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The Evil Mike Brooks
They converted the other way, not back to flint.
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Mutiple example of reconversion, both on frontier and in modern times. On frontier, some people found flints easier to get than caps. In modern times, people wanting to make gun more marketable, or some such.
Most reconversions were a modern modification to an old rifle. The rifle as a percussion rifle had little value, but when reconverted to a flintlock, it was worth much more as it was perceived to a much older antique rifle.
The gunsmith ads of the time of the introduction were to convert or percuss a flint lock to take advantage of the new technology. I don't think anyone has seen period ads to convert from percussion locks back to flint.
As a thought experiment about a frontier reconversion, the flint lock would need to be available. A frontiersman would be unlikely to have a flint lock that would fit in the lock mortise. It would also be unlikely for the frontiersman to have the tools (taps, dies and drills) to replace the threaded drum. He wouldn't have the hacksaw to saw off the drum nor the files to smooth the sawed off stub to the barrel. To be sure there were gunsmiths on the frontier that could possibly perform the reconversion of a percussion locked gun to flint, but it's not likely that such reconversions were done. That gunsmithing task certainly doesn't show up in the advertisements.
The gunsmith ads of the time of the introduction were to convert or percuss a flint lock to take advantage of the new technology. I don't think anyone has seen period ads to convert from percussion locks back to flint.
As a thought experiment about a frontier reconversion, the flint lock would need to be available. A frontiersman would be unlikely to have a flint lock that would fit in the lock mortise. It would also be unlikely for the frontiersman to have the tools (taps, dies and drills) to replace the threaded drum. He wouldn't have the hacksaw to saw off the drum nor the files to smooth the sawed off stub to the barrel. To be sure there were gunsmiths on the frontier that could possibly perform the reconversion of a percussion locked gun to flint, but it's not likely that such reconversions were done. That gunsmithing task certainly doesn't show up in the advertisements.
