Think it'll work?

[Indy Durtdigger]

Repaired my first lock this week. I don't have the best rock in it, piece of farm field pick up I smashed into a rough flint.
Took my chances on evilbay a couple weeks ago and got bit on a TC lock by a seller with 100 percent positive feed back.

He used what I will call careful wording and photography to represent the item. Been kicking myself again.
Had a very badly bent lock plate and wasn't functional when it showed up at the old door step.

 

[IanH]

...not to mention it was a TC lock to begin with. Put some powder in the pan and see how it poofs. Wear gloves.

 

[Indy Durtdigger]

...not to mention it was a TC lock to begin with. Put some powder in the pan and see how it poofs. Wear gloves.

That's a tomorrow thing. Don't know why the video is so dark on the computer. On my phone you can see the thing.

 

[Indy Durtdigger]

Alrighty. Some better shots with a better rock in it.

 

[IanH]

Flint is hitting the frizzen at almost 90 degrees initially. Flint needs to be repositioned to angle downward more, bend the cock jaws down, or rework the frizzen so it angles back more at the top. The action sure is fast though!

 

[Indy Durtdigger]

Flint is hitting the frizzen at almost 90 degrees initially. Flint needs to be repositioned to angle downward more, bend the cock jaws down, or rework the frizzen so it angles back more at the top. The action sure is fast though!

Thank you for the tip.

 

[Indy Durtdigger]

Took another look at that lock a bit ago. It may yet need some physical tweaks as it is a gen one but for this instance the strike problem was me flipping the flint over to strike above the halfway point. The edge is catching the casting seam. The few times I worked it I was concentrating on holding the phone and rifle and missed that. It had pulled the flint up and rotated it. The rotation can be readily seen in the vid with the powder, nearly a 30 degree angle on the strike on the face of the frizzen.

My attention to detail be faulty today.

 

[IanH]

Flipping or even shimming the back of the flint may well be all it needed as you mentioned. A couple sweeps across the roller part of a belt sander will remove the casting seam, but it doesn't seem to be too bad in the striking area and will wear off from use anyway.

 

[wiscoaster]

You could try flipping the flint over and mounting it that way. You're getting pretty good spark, with sparks raining right down into the pan, but hitting the frizzen at that angle is going to unduly wear the frizzen and also chip the sharp edge off the flint. Try that before you start bending metal, as another poster suggested.

 

[Indy Durtdigger]

You could try flipping the flint over and mounting it that way. You're getting pretty good spark, with sparks raining right down into the pan, but hitting the frizzen at that angle is going to unduly wear the frizzen and also chip the sharp edge off the flint. Try that before you start bending metal.

It was hitting way low with the bevel up, below halfway. That may be where a cock adjustment (potentially an update to the redesigned one for 20 bucks and leave the original as is) or a differently shaped flint come into play.

 

[XVIIc Wheelock]

Alrighty. Some better shots with a better rock in it.

Sure looks like your touch-hole is low in the pan. Maybe just the photo?