Grease hole

[Banjoman]

Added a grease hole to the .45 percussion rifle. Southern mountain rifles from East Tennessee and western North Carolina sometimes had these. We’ll see how it works.

I got the idea from this,

 

[Nobody85]

Hey looks great! You planning on using it as such, or just looks ?

 

[Banjoman]

Oh, I’ll definitely be using it! Hopefully soon. The grease I put in it is a mixture of beeswax and olive oil and is about the consistency of shoe polish. It’s actually yellow but looks white in the picture.

 

[tenngun]

Oh, I’ll definitely be using it! Hopefully soon. The grease I put in it is a mixture of beeswax and olive oil and is about the consistency of shoe polish. It’s actually yellow but looks white in the picture.

Let us know how it goes, I was alway afraid it would pick up gunk

 

[Banjoman]

Let us know how it goes, I was alway afraid it would pick up gunk

As soon as I can we’ll find out.

 

[Stykbow]

Let us know how it goes, I was alway afraid it would pick up gunk

This seems like a valid concern, but for some reason I always wondered how the lube would hold up in the heat.
@Banjoman no matter what, looks like a good job drilling and I hope you like it in practice.

 

[Banjoman]

I definitely like the way it looks. I always thought those were cool and interesting, a real southern mountain kind of thing. My grease is more of a stiff paste so I think it will be fine. Most of my shooting and hunting is in the fall and winter anyway so melting probably won’t be a concern.

 

[JohnBHM]

I had planned to add one to my SMR but held off as I wasn't sure just how big to make it and just called the project done so I could get to the Finishing. What diameter hole did you do. Your thread has made me want to complete my original plan for this gun. Thanks for posting yours.

 

[Banjoman]

I had planned to add one to my SMR but held off as I wasn't sure just how big to make it and just called the project done so I could get to the Finishing. What diameter hole did you do. Your thread has made me want to complete my original plan for this gun. Thanks for posting yours.

I used a 1” hole saw. Drilled down about 1/4” then chiseled out the center. Don’t know if this is how it was done back in the 19th century, but it worked for me.

 

[JohnBHM]

I used a 1” hole saw. Drilled down about 1/4” then chiseled out the center. Don’t know if this is how it was done back in the 19th century, but it worked for me. View attachment 349789

Thanks, I've got Forstner bits that give you a flat bottom hole. I will post a picture after do it.

 

[Banjoman]

I used the hole saw because I couldn’t find any of my Forstner bits bigger than 1/2”. Things like that have a way of disappearing around here.

Nice gun by the way. What is it?

 

[JohnBHM]

Thanks. It's a Kibler 36 cal. Southern Mountain Rifle that I finished this past January.

 

[Antelope Pete]

Here in the dusty, dirty west the lube would quickly turn into a coarse valve grinding compound.