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Another Cannon
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I'm building one a tad bigger. It's about 20 inches long and has a 1.125 bore. I'm figuring out how to mount the trunions. I had to make a steady rest to thread the breach and to build the steady, I had to make a tool post grinder.
Loooong project! The breach plug is welded after screwed together. One half of the caskabell is turned but the rest is a handy chucking point. A fitted plug, center drilled, is stuck in the muzzle so I will turn between centers and might be handy for boring and/or threading the trunion holes. It is a copy of a very small wooden cannon barrel I aquired years ago.
It's a 6 pounder, I think. It's the only cannon tube used by the Navy and Army. As for firing, it will discourage any interlopers from coming down my drive. Now, who knows how to made quick matches with the lanard pull? Oh, I can see fun on the horizion, or is that the sheriff coming to visit? Any one have any 1.125 balls laying around for test projectiles? I promise I'll return them ,if I can find them. They should be whole but may be slightly scuffed on the sides. Also,anybody need any ~1 1/8 punched holes?
Loooong project! The breach plug is welded after screwed together. One half of the caskabell is turned but the rest is a handy chucking point. A fitted plug, center drilled, is stuck in the muzzle so I will turn between centers and might be handy for boring and/or threading the trunion holes. It is a copy of a very small wooden cannon barrel I aquired years ago.
It's a 6 pounder, I think. It's the only cannon tube used by the Navy and Army. As for firing, it will discourage any interlopers from coming down my drive. Now, who knows how to made quick matches with the lanard pull? Oh, I can see fun on the horizion, or is that the sheriff coming to visit? Any one have any 1.125 balls laying around for test projectiles? I promise I'll return them ,if I can find them. They should be whole but may be slightly scuffed on the sides. Also,anybody need any ~1 1/8 punched holes?
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Thanks for the info. thomas s
Please post some pictures when your done. With that size bore you may have to tie that down LOL thomas s
1.250 round stock 6" long. Trunnion is 5/16". I did it the same way - single piece held with set screw in bottom of barrel. I rebored the barrel after installing it.
I want to make one next with .500 bore. I"ll definitely have to do the trunnion different then.
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OK, with a .500 bore will you have to go with a heavier metal, Brass or maybe steal to handle a larger load, Otherwise I would think that you would have to have a real thick wall on it.
And on the trunion, in order to keep it out of the bore, have you considered a grove around the barrel, and a piece machined, that clamps around it and its in the grooves. If done right I think that it should hold, but may be more machining. Although I have just started out again and may be out there. Although I keep telling the wife I want one like cactus farmer is wanting to make. I'll just use heavy wads in it, but she keeps saying NO. I guess she does not want he cops at the front door.
And on the trunion, in order to keep it out of the bore, have you considered a grove around the barrel, and a piece machined, that clamps around it and its in the grooves. If done right I think that it should hold, but may be more machining. Although I have just started out again and may be out there. Although I keep telling the wife I want one like cactus farmer is wanting to make. I'll just use heavy wads in it, but she keeps saying NO. I guess she does not want he cops at the front door.
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Ipeedin, that is a great looking cannon. After showing my 6 year old grandson both of your cannon threads, I could nor resist in modifying a 50 year inherited toy iron cannon that I got from my father. It was only bored in 2" and the fuse hole was 1/4" in deep on the 6" barrel. I re-bored the barrel to the fuse hole, added 15 grain of black powder with a tight paper wad and impressed my grandson with a lot of smoke and flash. My daughter would of killed us if she saw what we were doing.
The trunions were welded to the barrel. I am a little nervous about the recoil in shooting a .5" steel ball from this cannon.
The trunions were welded to the barrel. I am a little nervous about the recoil in shooting a .5" steel ball from this cannon.