Flint question

[1BadDart]

Does oil affect flint?

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Yes. It makes it shine.

 

[64Springer]

Oil makes the sparks more slipperyer so they'll enter the pan faster.

 

[1BadDart]

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[64Springer]

Oil and sparks do not play nicely together.

I wipe my frizzen faces down with acetone.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Oiling the flint will not help it spark. Oil on the flint will get on the frizzen and then you won't get sparks. I suspect 64Springer is joking.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Oiling the flint will not help it spark. Oil on the flint will get on the frizzen and then you won't get sparks. I suspect 64Springer is joking.

Sorry I was writing this and didn't see 64 had responded again.

 

[1BadDart]

Sorry guys, I should've been more specific. Does flint readily absorb oil?

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

It isn't a very porous rock, so no, but oil will coat it and reduce the spark noticeably. Water has the safe effect, only it is easier to get rid of once the storm has passed/

 

[Gamechaser]

Actually, a little known fact, flint is more buoyant than other stones. Thats why arrowheads come to the surface so easily

 

[toot]

Actually, a little known fact, flint is more buoyant than other stones. Thats why arrowheads come to the surface so easily

I think what brings them to the surface is a thing called Frost. it is what forces them up to the surface. I would go arrow head hunting after a frost and they were on the field surface. not there before. jmho.

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

Only ever found one flint arrowhead. I carried it around for a while and eventually passed it on to a native boy. Hope he still has it.

 

[Art Caputo]

After cleaning, I will oil my lock/flint/breach. Before shooting, I will wipe down my flint(edge), frizzen face, pan, and run a pipe cleaner through my flash hole with alcohol(or other oil displacing solvent). Never had and issue with sparking/ignition.

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

After cleaning, I will oil my lock/flint/breach. Before shooting, I will wipe down my flint(edge), frizzen face, pan, and run a pipe cleaner through my flash hole with alcohol(or other oil displacing solvent). Never had and issue with sparking/ignition.

'cause you are doing everything right!

 

[rich pierce]

Will soaking a knife or ax blade in oil make it sharper or the edge last longer? Just kidding.

Unless weathered and cracked, flint is not absorbent.

Flint is a dense rock. It does not float up through the soil. If things came to the surface in soil because they were of lower density it would be impossible to bury a log permanently.

 

[Phil Coffins]

There would be a lot of caskets on the lawns!

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Actually, a little known fact, flint is more buoyant than other stones. Thats why arrowheads come to the surface so easily

With assistance from a plow.

 

[Gamechaser]

Even after a good hard rain in a cornfield they will come to the top

 

[The Appalachian]

Floating flint rocks.

Ok, that's enough internet for me today.........

 

[bldtrailer]

Here in the USA we don't have flint , we have chert (flint only forms in chalk deposits , like the cliffs of dover england and chert forms in limestone & we have lots of limestone in USA) both are silica (glass like) so unless other impurities are present it will not absorb water /oil. some cherts smell like oil if formed near oil shale also a sedimentary rock. Oil will prevent good sparking and if mixed with powder will cause a miss fire
rocks in farm fields are pushed to the surface by frost /frozen water in soil as the ice crystals form lifts the solids