Roguedog said:In speaking with Tip, he was definitely of the opinion that a larger touch hole would make ignition slower. He told me a well tuned flintlock will shoot faster than a caplock. I'm not sure if this is true or not but I can definitely say that ignition in my flintlock is NOT as fast as my percussion guns. I'm working to try and improve this situation.
Jeff
Grumpa said:Also, my search took me into clarinet bores! They have a subtle hourglass shape, not visible to the naked eye. The tone holes are chamfered on the bottom edge (inside the bore), "making the tone hole function as if it were larger".
Given that the direction of flow is from inside the clarinet bore out through the tone holes, it makes sense to me that the chamfering of a flintlock's vent hole should be on the outside of the barrel, rather than on the chamber side, so that the flaming gas is travelling at a higher speed/hotter temperature when it encounters the main charge of powder.
This is so far off topic, I don't know where to start.George said:That's not true.Stillwater said:For a practical and very easily understood demonstration of this, Look at which way the water flows when a toilet is flushed. It swirls to the right in the northern hemisphere, and swirls to the left in the southern hemisphere.
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