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Anybody use silk for patch material? Does it work? Are special lubes needed.
Zonie said:To the best of my knowledge the answer is NO.
If you look at an electric iron you might notice the heat settings start with OFF, RAYON, SILK, WOOL...
This gives a clue that silk doesn't like high temperatures and burning black powder is downright hot.
Add to that the fact that silk fabric is almost always very thin.
A patch must be thick enough to fill the rifling grooves and seal them against the high pressures of the burning powder. Thin material won't do that.
I think most of this idea that silk would work comes from the movie Last of the Mohicans where some idiot decided the hero should champion the idea of using silk to gain an advantage.
My advise is to forget about using silk and stick to cotton or linen. We know they work nicely and your significant other won't get Pi**d about the big hole someone cut in her bloomers.
:thumbsup: And well she should! For one thing, I don't see the daughters of an infantry colonel wearing silken underthingies in the woods in the first place. Cotton or linen would have been far more comfortable, like all natural fiber garments. Secondly, I haven't found a whole lot of the movie dialog following Cooper's original work...no matter how hard I look, I just can't find the part where Gen Webb says the French only want to eat and make love with their faces, rather than fight! :thumbsup: :rotf:Patocazador said:That girl would have told Hawkeye, Chingachook and Uncas to GTH. :nono:
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