[sdiy] modular mechanics

[James Patchell]

         I always wondered how they made the barrels...the 1816 musket I 
have has a hole in it big enough for a 69 caliber ball.  When I found 
out...which is to say they would take a hot piece of iron, and wrap it 
round a mandrel and weld it together by beating it...I lost my enthusiasm 
for attempting to get the gun in a condition where it could be fired...I 
lost all confidence that it would ever survive a charge of gun powder.

At 12:54 PM 7/29/2003 -0700, Tim Ressel wrote:
>Fdi,
>
>Learn to to metalworking. Its lots cheaper when you do
>it yourself.
>
>I once saw a show about colonial american gunsmiths
>making muskets. They would forge pieces into the rough
>shape needed. Then they would file, yes, FILE then to
>the final shape. This could take days per piece.
>Needless to say it took a month per musket.
>
>I was impressed until I found out the gunsmiths had to
>make their own files. Then I was Really Impressed!
>
>--tr
>
>--- Fdi <fdi at ran.es> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > How do you attach the modules on a non-wood frame?
> > I was thinking on a rack frame (SKB pop-up case),
> > but my research is
> > discouranging me, so I ask on a more generaly...
> > May be I'm not seing something that is common
> > practice for others...
> >
> > Thank you to all that replied until today about the
> > front rails.
> > I'm surprised of the very few possibilities
> > (specifically two), and they are
> > so expensive... ($34 per pair in the case of the
> > strips of the pics I posted
> > before. I plan to build three cases 4*3U, so
> > 34*16=$544!!!, too much for a
> > bunch of metal strips I think, and that's a special
> > quantity price)
> >
> > Fernando
> >
> >
> > f
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