[IAC Hawk]

IAC is out of business.  If you click on the "Ad to Cart" button it comes up "THE LISTING IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR SALE."

[1873 Measured Lever Force]

Lever force gauge.

 

[Help with ID on rolling block]

From the photos it looks like floor lamp grade.

 

[Actors that you really dislike]

Fatty Arbuckle.

 

[Advice from a know-it-all.]

6 minutes ago, Hoss said:

I roiled up some alum foil into a ball, stuffed it in the arbor hole to get the proper fit! The “elegant” solution is to use a Dillon locator button. Attached to cylinder arbor, then grind it to proper thickness. 

Who do you think came up with that fix?

 

 

[Advice from a know-it-all.]

The reason they do not fit correctly is because the arbors are too short.

[Short stroke New Vaquero, who do you like?]

9 minutes ago, Giuseppe Calderoni said:

 

Is this the correct link for Shotgun Boogie?

https://sbgwllc.com/

You click on it and it comes up Shotgun Boogie Gun Works.  I do not understand the question.

[Bass Reeves]

Watched the first two episodes on CBS.  To watch the rest you have to subscribe to Paramount+.  Guess I will never know what happens to poor old Bass.

[NCIS SIDNEY Aussies beware :)]

Watched the "new" show.  Will not be watching another episode.

[Short stroke New Vaquero, who do you like?]

The only major smith I see missing is Jim Bowie.  As noted in previous posts Shotgun Boogies uses new precision machined replacement parts.  As far as I am aware everyone else uses cut and welded original parts.

[Black Powder Bullet Source]

Use a grease cookie.

[Magazine Tube Replacement Pin]

Do you have an accurate caliper and do you know how to make accurate measurements?  The pin should be .098" in diameter.  What is the diameter of the pins you have?  The closest drill bits are going to be number drills.  #40 would be .098" and #39 would be .0995".  2.5mm is .098" and a roll pin has a certain amount of spring to take up tiny variations in OD.  If you cannot find the proper size roll pin at your local ACE PM me your address and I will send you one.

[Magazine Tube Replacement Pin]

Or, put the pin on two washers and put a punch in the center and give it a smack to put a slight bend in the pin.

 

[Magazine Tube Replacement Pin]

2.5 mm x 12 roll pin.  ACE Hardware.

 

 

[Lawmen: Bass Reeves]

You can go to his store - Bass Pro.

[Cimarron 1873]

Got so excited you had to check your blood pressure.

[Primer Pocket Swaging LR to LP]

3 minutes ago, Phantom, SASS #54973 said:

I think there's a tool that basically compresses the pocket from the inside...therefore making the pocket depth a bit shallower...I think...

That is what it does but it is only about .002-.003".  Hardly worth the effort.

[Primer Pocket Swaging LR to LP]

I have used large pistol primers while shooting some BP cartridges.  They seat a tad deeper but work just fine.

[Primer Pocket Swaging LR to LP]

I can see making it deeper, but how do you make a primer pocket shallower?

 

 

You have my curiosity peaked so I came back and edited this post.  Why would anyone want to do this?

[Primer Pocket Swaging LR to LP]

???  Large rifle and large pistol are both .210.

 

 

[Signals, This Day, 1805]

23 hours ago, Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme said:

Where is this on display at?

 

https://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum/attractions/nelsons-trafalgar-coat

[Titegroup Powder]

In case you have not heard Hodgdon has renamed Titegroup.  It is now High Gun.  Here is a post I copied from a shotshell reloading site.

 

"I just received this from Hodgdon..............

Hello Danny, The High Gun powder is Titegroup with a shotshell name, we felt it was often overlooked for shotshell use even though it is excellent for that. Perfect pattern is however a new powder of its own.

Thank you

Luke Otte
Customer Service Manager

Hodgdon Powder Co.
6430 vista dr.
Shawnee, Ks 66218"

[Signals, This Day, 1805]

Lord Nelson's tunic.  The hole in the shoulder is where the bullet entered from a shooter up in the rigging of a French ship.  It went down and severed his spine.

 

 

 

[CIA Deer Gun]

In the late 1950s the CIA thought it would be nice to drop cheap guns into Commieland.  The WWII Liberators had been scrapped so they came up with a die cast aluminum gun in 9mm.  Very few were ever actually produced.

 

 

[Good radio stations]

9 hours ago, Dirty Dan Dawkins said:

In the Atlanta radio heyday, the 90’s

The radio stations are just fine.  You are just 30 years OLDER.  The heyday for me was the late 50s, 60s and early 70s.  They do not sell 45 or 33 1/3 rpm records anymore.  In fact they pretty much don't even sell CDs anymore.  They do not even sell IPods anymore. Modern kids get everyting online.  The music business today bares no resemblance to decades past.