Traditional Patch Worm and Ball Puller

[Delta Factor]

I'm looking for a traditional alternative to the Treso-type worm and screw arrangement that are ubiquitous today.

A few years ago I saw a patch worm that somehow attached itself to the end of a bare wooden ramrod, but I don't remember where it came from.

Does anyone have any information on how "they" attached patches for cleaning, and where to get something similar today?

 

[rabjr]

Weren't worms ment to be used with Tow? Not patches?

 

[musketman]

Track Of The Wolf sells the "Primitive" Patch worm...

Patch worm

They're nothing but a tapered coil spring, the deeper you screw it on, the tighter it grips the ramrod...

 

[jrdavis]

you can make on from a 5/16 rod ...tahe a hacksaw and split down the middle for and inch and a half heat and sperd open then file the so called arms round. take a pair of needle nose and twist the arms up and around to makle the worm. use you hacksaw to cut the 5/16 round a 1/2 inch below the top part. cut a shaft to be threaded to fit your rod...
clear as mud right :results: