Leonard Day Wheellock Rifle in the mail!

[ChrisPer]

what i would like to know is what is a.66 caliber Italian single-shot wheellock carbine. doing in an english home the pilgurms came here from holland they where english but liveing in holland you would think they would have had duth or english wheel locks ?
thank you
Richard Westerfield

Then as now the big arms makers were major exporters. The Italian and German wheellock makers dominated the wheellock market - for much of Europe. The suggestion (in the linked nra blog article) that it may have been bought from a mercenary out of work is just a possibility; more than likely there were dealers and brokers locally who could order in what the customer wanted.

 

[raszpla]

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O97614/wheel-lock-mechanism/

 

[raszpla]

:hatsoff:

 

[wulf]

My first wheel locks were V spring and chain...
After that I just experimented...I still use the
chain.I like it,it's OK . The outside remains the
same so like Lenard Days....nobody can tell till
they remove the lock, but you have to buy it first
LOL. The important thing is it works all the time
without the heavy smash of the spring when it reaches bottom.. I put together that German kit #
545 [?] and it is a real crasher.....

 

[wulf]

...Leonard Day...My sorry.

 

[wahkahchimaol.com]

Ah, well, I own it now and what matters is making it work. At this point it seems to be more about lock geometry. I haven't had good results with it so far but I'm sure that's about me as much as anything. One thing I notice from all the old photos: the original wheellocks used really highly refined pyrites shaped into square lozenges. That's a big part of the system which I'm not using right now. Let's see what that does to reliability.

Ach, dobrze, POSIADAM go teraz i liczy się dokonanie jej prac. W tym miejscu warto wydaje się być raczej o zamknięciu geometrii. Mam nie miała dobrych wyników z nią ale Jestem tak dalece pewni, że "o mnie tyle, ile nic. Jedno i zawiadomienia od wszystkie stare zdjęcia: pierwotnego wheellocks używane naprawdę bardzo wyrafinowanym pirytów ukształtowany na placu procesom. Że's a big części systemu, która nie jestem przy użyciu prawo teraz. Restauracja Let' s patrz: to, co by nie do wiarygodności.

 

[welafong1]

you say it is a real crasher.....
what do you mean by that ??????????

thank you
Richard Westerfield

 

[hawkeye2]

The chain serves only as a link between the main spring and the wheel. It transfers the power and motion of the spring to the wheel. Most wheellocks with a chain used a "V" type mainspring similar to what most flint and percussion locks had.

 

[welafong1]

i most be missing something what does it mean by
saying {its a real crasher} the flint does not come crashing down on the wheel. its placed on top of the wheel in turn the wheel truns and the flint rubs on the whell while its turning thats what i think going on
thank you
Richard Westerfield