Being in Europe I never considered Ebay... I suppose if I ordered one from Ebay US (or whatever) it would survive custom checks on account of, to the untrained eye, looking like a strange screw.
or grease fitting!
What is TOTW?
Track of the wolf. A dealer in muzzleloaders,supplies, accessories etc...
Ahh! That seems the way to go then. Many thanks!
Isn't that the skirt thing that little girls wear at recitals?
Thanks for going out on a limb here Hanshi. There are obvious physical limitations of too small a flash hole and yet some never tire of pointing out the danger of too large of one. That danger is well explained by many, but going to the opposite extreme is no solution at all. I have no issue being corrected by someone w your very apparent creds [compared to my own limited ones w ML's], but it seems that, as long as a load is not an obvious overcharge, the individual rifle and lock will tell the owner when the flash hole is, or has gotten, too large because it will show up w the always mentioned symptoms of rebound. On the other hand, the wise shooter, after making sure that other possible problems are eliminated will, at some point in dealing with ignition failure, have to admit that the same rifle is telling him that the flash hole is too small for his rifle and therefore the culprit. It cannot be an accident that among #11 nipples there is some variety in flash hole sizes. It is hard to imagine that a manufacturer would risk the liability of a dangerously large flash hole size. It appears to me from quite a bit of study on this that there is a 'golden mean' of flash hole sizes for #11's somewhere between the mid .020's to around .035 and that the balance of good, consistent ignition and safety can be found here by the attentive shooter. The individual rifle will tell him. .028 works perfectly in my Traditions [that's what it came with] and is impossible in 2 TC's I have. They both want .034. I'm sure this varies even among the same make of rifles. Thanks for your wise input. SW
I think you and a couple of others may have identified the problem here. The exit hole truly is tiny, and I find that the misfires occure typically after 5 or 6 shots. There's obviously not enough spark going in there. Even allowing for fouling this is not acceptable; my old Parker Hale Enfield could perform all day without even the need for a quick clean every 5 shots or so. So, I think in the short term maybe I should get a needle file onto that hole and widen it a touch.
