JB Weld on frizzen to hold powder?

[Jim in San Diego]

What’s your opinion on this?

This guy recommends adding JB Weld to the bottom of a frizzen and then filing it back to hold priming powder in place for hunting.

Seems like a good idea, but it’s certainly not traditional.

 

[kyron4]

Don't know, but grandpa always said " If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid ."

 

[Tumbledown]

That actually sounds like a decent way to help waterproof a lock if one extends it over the pan edges.

 

[S.Kenton]

I’ve never had the issue that he describes in the video, my frizzes all fit pretty tight on the pan. So I guess I’d see no need in adding JB weld to the the frizzen.

 

[Sidney Smith]

I carry an old chapstick tube that I filled with lube. If it gets wet out, I run some along the edge where the frizzen touches the pan. It works well enough.

 

[nit wit]

devalues the rifle or pistol.
Nit Wit

 

[FishDFly]

Amen.

 

[FishDFly]

I carry an old chapstick tube that I filled with lube. If it gets wet out, I run some along the edge where the frizzen touches the pan. It works well enough.

Sounds like a well thought out idea.

 

[olskool]

two things. i do not use 4f hunting, i use what is in the horn, 3f or 2 f, another thing, if there is enough of a crack to dribble powder out, i take my hammer/frizzen off and stone the two mating surfaces flat where you cannot see daylight when the hammer/frizzen is on the pan. i never have that problem after that no Jb weld on my gun please,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Grenadier1758]

The heat from the pan flash and the jet of gas back through the touch hole will quickly erode the JB weld in the pan. The JB weld is by no means a permanent solution. The wax around the pan is a much better means to make the pan and frizzen more water resistant.

 

[tom in nc]

NO JB Weld on my guns. Good as it is, I would be afraid that it would eventually break off and pieces would go somewhere they shouldn't. Just my humble opinion, everyone else do what you want to your gun.

 

[ZUG]

Any of the above methods that are used to waterproof the interface between the pan and frizzen will either be lost in the first shot or after a few more shots. This means that you will have to apply it again in the field no matter what you used originally be it wax, JB weld or whatever. If you got your deer or whatever game you are hunting then that's fine but if you are still out there in the rain - well your gun is going to get WET - my two cents worth.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Oh my favorite type of post ... the answer to a question that was not wanted nor asked! Yippee~!

HUZZAH!

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Place the touch hole in the proper position and fill the pan and close the frizzen. The frizzen should be what holds the powder in place, not a bunch of goo.

 

[Sidney Smith]

Place the touch hole in the proper position and fill the pan and close the frizzen. The frizzen should be what holds the powder in place, not a bunch of goo.

And how many pan to frizzen mate ups are perfectly square? I'd bet less than 100%.

I use the lube because I have it, and it's easily wiped off at the end of the day. It in essence forms a gasket to protect the powder somewhat from moisture.

To me, using JB weld is a stupid idea.

 

[2 shots]

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT BLOWS OUT ?? WORTH YOUR EYES OR THE PERSONS NEXT TO YOU? WHEN I AM PRESIDENT JB WELD AND BOREBUTTER WILL BE OUTLAWED . but its on the internet ....gotta be good

 

[bigstick6017555]

Read and watch the video, it is on the frizzen, not in the pan

 

[wiscoaster]

Well, they didn't have JB Weld "back in the day", but they did have ways, so I suppose it depends on how bad you want to be "PC".

 

[SDSmlf]

One could possibly think outside the box and fit the frizzen bottom to the pan if it’s an issue.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

If it's on
Youtube it has to be a good idea.