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Valley Tinker

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Just picked up this book as I plan to frustrate the manure out of myself by making my own lock. Anyone else out there read it or used it?
 
Never seen the book but I used this drawing, at least for some of the parts. I didn't like the coil spring and made mine more traditional.


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Here is my feeble results, though it fires well.
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WOW!
That is not feeble. If it goes BANG then the race is won!
Davis uses the coil spring versus leaf spring. I have a couple of old Enfield mainsprings I was thinking of using.
 
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