Maxprop wrote:

"PDW" wrote in message
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Scotty wrote:

"katy" wrote in message
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PDW wrote:


Once you get all this done just what the heck are you
going to make with
it all?

Guns, of course.

BT, DT. Cannons if you please. You can make guns on mini-mills & lathes,
but
cannons require *real* machinery.

PDW

Hmmmm. You've piqued my interest, Pete. I have a 10ga. Winchester black
powder cannon. What are you building? What I'm looking for are specifics:
bore, appearance, replication, material, etc. Are you going to be selling
them commercially?

Half scale moddels of a 1806 British 6 pounder naval cannon and a half scale
model of an 1812 Napoleon field gun, widely used by both sides in your Civil
War IIRC. Cast iron construction (I had a friend with a foundry). The castings
are lying about the place seasoning - did them a long time ago. I'm going to
bore them out and sleeve them with Sched 80 s/steel tube, probably at 57mm
bore for golf balls. When I get the time that is.

And yes, I do have a lathe big enough to bore out one of these toys.

No, they're not for sale, never will be. Just big garden ornaments tho I might
fit one of the naval guns to my schooner as a stern chaser. Friend of mine has
a dozen I think on the 'DUYFKEN'. He has rail mounted swivel guns too. I still
have the pattern for the Napoleon gun and my friend still has the pattern for
the naval gun so we could cast more, but I have no plans to do so.

PDW