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Boyd
Location: London
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 Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:23 pm Black powder anyone? |
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Interesting webpage by chemical engineer instructing on the correct way to make Black powder, slow match and forging handgonnes!
enjoy!
http://www.musketeer.ch/blackpowder/history.html
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Thys
Location: Orc Land
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:02 am |
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Very interesting!
I may be able to cast some bronze Handgonne if i can get my furnace up and running. |
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Nathan
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NigelT
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Location: Wellington
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Boyd
Location: London
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:04 pm |
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www.dalath.com/ab/handgonneshuvud.htm
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NigelT
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Location: Wellington
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| The part about naming the guns is interesting. I would have thought the average person, even in medieval times would have been smart enough to remember the calibre of the gun he was holding. |
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Boyd
Location: London
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Bogue
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Location: Palmy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:46 pm Gonna make it go BOOOOOOMMMMM |
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And Boyd asked:-
| Quote: | | ... anyone got any spare hydraulic pipe? |
Not on me but I can prolly find some seeing as I work next door to a scrap yard.
How long?
Cheers
Bogue |
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Nathan
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I'm looking for a couple of pieces about 20 inch or so with a bore of 14mm-20mm. If the barrel is less than 16 inch = pistol. I'm doing mine 16.5 inch long.
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quentin
Location: Wellington
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:12 pm Pipe |
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I'd love a piece about 2 or 3 feet long! Just big enough to fit a V can would be perfect !
We do need either real thick walls - or high pressure tubing though.
Black powder pressures are fairly substancial - don't under estimate them! 
Plenty of Black powder around for this !
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Bogue
Sponsor
Location: Palmy
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:18 am It's a John Lee Hooker song |
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Hydralic ram outer tubes or in some cases the central ram itself
Threading and Butt capping could be tricky and quite probably expensive.
But, nothings cheap these days.
Will have a better look on Monday
Nathan yours could be hard to find
Quentin Yours should be fairly common
Boyd What sort of Bore are you looking at
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Nathan
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Will probably get seamless, high pressure pipe, 14-20mm bore with 6mm wall section. Will then put course tap and plug with high tensile bolt.
We'll see.
Have to finish crossbows first.
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Bogue
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Location: Palmy
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:39 am Mr Boombastic |
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Nathan said:- | Quote: | | Will probably get seamless, high pressure pipe, 14-20mm bore with 6mm wall section. |
Go for a heavier wall if possible.
| Quote: | | Will then put course tap and plug with high tensile bolt. |
Use a fine thread tap M20x1.5 rather than M20x2.0. The finer pitch will give you more threads per inch and therefore better friction and higher tensile strength (Less chance of blowing the arse out of it and through you).
Cheers
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Boyd
Location: London
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:20 pm |
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Thanks for the offer Bogue, I'm a little way off this project just yet, I found a person who knows about forge welding and he has a box of silica sand for flux that he said I can have... it may be time to try for a more mediaeval looking axe than my current one! Hmmm!
Though that is after the local cooper shows me how to make buckets and I have worked out how to rive wood with splitting wedges - I was just given a plain tree trunk 6' by 2' to play with...
And there's a wood turning society down here!
So many mediaeval projects so little time... 
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Bogue
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Location: Palmy
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:14 pm With a hint of granny smith |
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Boyd did state:-
| Quote: | ......Though that is after the local cooper shows me how to make buckets and I have worked out how to rive wood with splitting wedges - I was just given a plain tree trunk 6' by 2' to play with...
And there's a wood turning society down here! |
Colour me more than slightly green.
Nelson just keeps looking better and better.
And the Tahunanui beach front at sunset mid-summer (coming up towards 9.30 -9.45) is just incredible, The sun disaapears behind the hills and the colours are just trippy.
As an aside I believe all British government furniture, prior to 1900, had to be constructed of riven wood. Now if I could just remember where I read that.
Cheers
Bogue |
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