OT Pyrodex question

First you collect brass scrap for a long time. Second you build a furnace to melt the brass and make a casting. Third you make a cannon on a lathe.

Those with big bank balances can skip directly to step 3.

Wes

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clutch
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Yes! Relevant experience is a good thing.

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Don Foreman

Correct.

Gunner who shoots both BP and Pyrodex

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Gunner

Would bronze not be a better choice than brass for a cannon? I would not really trust brass with anything near a full load. So, if you are starting with brass scrap, you'll have to figure some way of separating out the zinc, and then adding the proper amount of tin instead, which will also run the price up.

I would consider brass appropriate for a decorative cannon which lacked some necessary thing to allow it to be fired - like no touch hole and not bored nearly deep enough to let one meet anyway if someone did try to drill a touch hole on their own. :-)

:-)

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

Use the brass for decoration on the outside of the Bronze cannon. Make brass cannon ball - pretty stack. Brass turns green and puffs up. Bad. Stick a ball in a puff up and boom goes the barrel.

Bronze was used on many of the sailing ships for a very long time ago.

Mart> Accord>>

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Martin H. Eastburn

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