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  1. Mike Stone

    Who rebuilds antique percussion locks?

    I rebuild old percussion shotguns as my hobby. Usually the existing parts can be repaired and reused, finding parts like a new Tumblr that will fit in your particular lock and work with the other parts can be almost impossible on something that was built in the 1800s. Track offers all the parts...
  2. Mike Stone

    Cold bending percussion hammers

    I was making a big deal out of nothing. Put it in the vise took a crescent wrench, pull the top of the hammer about a 16th of an inch and I'm golden. And some of these old pieces it's hard to tell which parts are hardened and which parts are not. At first file didn't cut into this hammer very...
  3. Mike Stone

    Loose Hammer of Brown Bess

    Steel it is, thanks
  4. Mike Stone

    Cold bending percussion hammers

    I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes 🙂 so you don't think that the harden them back in the day say the 1850s?
  5. Mike Stone

    Cold bending percussion hammers

    I see this is a pretty Old Post okay
  6. Mike Stone

    Cold bending percussion hammers

    It sounds like everything you guys are bending is modern. I've got a hundred plus year old piece that I need to bend a hammer and this post has made me more confused LOL
  7. Mike Stone

    Loose Hammer of Brown Bess

    I have always used beer cans and cut out a spacer from the can and it seems to have worked so far, except on the gun I'm working on now seems tight right after I do it and then it loosens in moments. I guess I need to invest in another shim material. This post has said steel is better another...
  8. Mike Stone

    I need some 1/4-28 nipples with long cones

    I ordered a couple of nipples with long thread patterns just to experiment. I didn't read it on this thread but somewhere someone suggested pounding a shim into the crotch of the mainspring. I made one out of Hickory, may have to change it to steal but it works like a charm. I'm sure it's only...
  9. Mike Stone

    Nipple thread sizes..

    LOL
  10. Mike Stone

    I need some 1/4-28 nipples with long cones

    The ones that I have seen on track that have a long threaded section are metric.
  11. Mike Stone

    I need some 1/4-28 nipples with long cones

    I'm having trouble finding 1/4 28 nipples with a cone length of much more than 0.44. I'm hoping to find something at least 0.80 or longer and I can grind It off. I have several old double barrel shotguns that one of the locks is in better shape and hits harder than the other and getting parts...
  12. Mike Stone

    Nipple thread sizes..

    Track of the wolf sells taps to enlarge messed up 1/4 28 threads taps from 0.05 over to 0.25 over. I got the whole kit, 5 taps in .05 increments. They also sell nipples corresponding to the taps in .05 increments.
  13. Mike Stone

    Acid etching a steel twist shotgun barrel

    This is sort of an unrelated question please advise if I should start another post. I couldn't find anything on the board pertaining to this particular issue. I am refinishing a double barrel shotgun barrel and in the process the center ramrod tube fell off. It was obviously soft soldered on...
  14. Mike Stone

    Acid etching a steel twist shotgun barrel

    This is the scrap of the old barrel I used ferric chloride on the left hand barrel twice. I'm sure the gun I'm working on now is going to turn out much better because I really didn't polish this one all that great it was just a test but it looks good. I usually cold blue my barrels after I clean...
  15. Mike Stone

    Acid etching a steel twist shotgun barrel

    Oh, and thanks for the warning about the plugs.
  16. Mike Stone

    Acid etching a steel twist shotgun barrel

    Ok will do, I'll let you know how it goes
  17. Mike Stone

    Acid etching a steel twist shotgun barrel

    The new barrel that I'm working on still has quite a bit of pattern on it how do you think that will affect the etching process?
  18. Mike Stone

    Acid etching a steel twist shotgun barrel

    Okay the barrel scrap that I found is definitely a twist. I can see just the slightest pattern as I'm sanding it off. In your experience do you think that the pattern will come out even on this old sanded out one?
  19. Mike Stone

    Acid etching a steel twist shotgun barrel

    I've only worked with double barrel shotguns so far. I have several cut off barrels from making Coach guns out of full size shotguns that have let rust in my garage for 3 years. I'm carting one now as we speak I can't tell if it was a twist but I think it was there is no Trace left of the twist...
  20. Mike Stone

    Acid etching a steel twist shotgun barrel

    I have rubber stoppers and nipple plugs
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