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Forum: European Armoury 14th December 2013, 08:35 PM
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Posted By Raf
Continuing the theme of early snap locks with...

Continuing the theme of early snap locks with combined steel and pan cover. This Spanish combination weapon has slideing steels and pancover. Royal Armoury, Madrid, C 1580. Any comments ?
Forum: European Armoury 13th December 2013, 11:35 AM
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Views: 13,500
Posted By Raf
Sorry . Could'nt help it...

Sorry . Could'nt help it...
Forum: European Armoury 12th December 2013, 07:08 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 89,358
Posted By Raf
Hullo Michael . Do we have a translation/...

Hullo Michael . Do we have a translation/ communication problem ? I thought this was exactly what I was describing very clearly in my last post. What I was also trying to do was explain how the...
Forum: European Armoury 11th December 2013, 06:16 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 89,358
Posted By Raf
On lateral push buttons... In case anyones...

On lateral push buttons...
In case anyones confused by this esoteric conversation. With a 'normal ' 2 part sear and prop system two relatively light springs are used to push the release prop under...
Forum: European Armoury 11th December 2013, 02:04 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 89,358
Posted By Raf
Hullo Michael . Yes , I always thought it was...

Hullo Michael . Yes , I always thought it was interesting the way the deficiencies of a single locking bar ; a tendency not to engage fully with the wheel slot and drop out formed the idea behind the...
Forum: European Armoury 10th December 2013, 10:11 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 89,358
Posted By Raf
Hullo Michael. No I dont know and since this is...

Hullo Michael. No I dont know and since this is not a conventional set up it would have to be a guess. I assumed the button was the trigger release for the secondary link . In view of the early...
Forum: European Armoury 9th December 2013, 07:20 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 89,358
Posted By Raf
Thanks for the picks .Did our posts cross...

Thanks for the picks .Did our posts cross somewhere? Compared to the Venice crossbow / wheelocks ( c 1510 ) the german version looks like its from another planet. Rather makes my point . With the...
Forum: European Armoury 9th December 2013, 06:18 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 89,358
Posted By Raf
Thanks Michael for a reflective and informative...

Thanks Michael for a reflective and informative response. I think I agree with you. Individual areas or centers of production have to be viewed as having their own histories and its probably...
Forum: European Armoury 8th December 2013, 11:36 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 89,358
Posted By Raf
Sorry Michael. The point seems to have got lost...

Sorry Michael. The point seems to have got lost somewhere. I wasnt suggesting that the push button pan release ; the presence or lack of it , was of any particular geographic or chronological...
Forum: European Armoury 8th December 2013, 10:51 AM
Replies: 48
Views: 89,358
Posted By Raf
Yes , very nice . But perhaps you could have...

Yes , very nice . But perhaps you could have mentioned what is really remarkable about the 1548 lock is that it has sliding pan covers with button release. All the others in this group have the...
Forum: European Armoury 6th December 2013, 09:22 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 52,811
Posted By Raf
Hullo Fernando. Interesting . Does the release...

Hullo Fernando. Interesting . Does the release sear work directly on the cock or on the tumbler ? Does it move horizontally or vertically and is their a second locking prop ?
Forum: European Armoury 4th December 2013, 09:12 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 52,811
Posted By Raf
Hullo again Fernando . Just found this image in...

Hullo again Fernando . Just found this image in an old post of yours . It looks relevant so I am re posting it . You obviously know about Portuguese firearms so where in the sixteenth century would...
Forum: European Armoury 4th December 2013, 10:42 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 52,811
Posted By Raf
Hullo Fernando. Thank you for helping to keep...

Hullo Fernando. Thank you for helping to keep this thread alive.
I’m sorry your comments didn’t translate very well, and if I have misinterpreted them apologies. I will try and answer them as...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2013, 10:07 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 11,745
Posted By Raf
The lock is the 1793 India pattern type 1. The...

The lock is the 1793 India pattern type 1. The double line around the sear screw is slightly unusual but presumably even ordnance contractors were permitted a small degree of self expression....
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 30th November 2013, 11:16 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 19,331
Posted By Raf
Thanks to all. I had done a bit of background...

Thanks to all. I had done a bit of background reading around the subject, but apparently not enough. What set me of was the observation that all researchers and experimenters trying to re create...
Forum: European Armoury 30th November 2013, 10:25 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 52,811
Posted By Raf
Brilliant! Thanks for that Fernando. I hoped...

Brilliant! Thanks for that Fernando. I hoped somewhere their would be an internal detail of the Turin double lock . I am re posting it here because I think it makes sense in the thread. The long...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 30th November 2013, 03:45 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 22,539
Posted By Raf
I think your being a bit hard on it . Cant...

I think your being a bit hard on it . Cant immediately see why the lock isnt a bog standard EIC lock ; Windus patern which formed the model for the India pattern Bess. Whats wrong with lock is the...
Forum: European Armoury 25th November 2013, 12:17 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 52,811
Posted By Raf
Thanks for that . I think Im still going to argue...

Thanks for that . I think Im still going to argue that the Turin lock is generically related to a group of early wheelocks usually ascribed to at least the first half of the sixteenth century if not ...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th November 2013, 11:03 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 19,331
Posted By Raf
Thanks for that . Clear and very helpfull. My...

Thanks for that . Clear and very helpfull. My naive observations were based on practical experience of traditionally case hardening gun parts not on any real understanding of metallurgy. If I follow...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 23rd November 2013, 06:57 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 19,331
Posted By Raf
clarification please.

I have never been clear about the difference between damascus steel , as in gun barrels where the distinctive pattern emerges from bars of iron of different carbon content which are twisted and...
Forum: European Armoury 23rd November 2013, 02:33 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 25,909
Posted By Raf
Joseph Furtenbach , inventor 1626. "..that...

Joseph Furtenbach , inventor 1626.
"..that prince or general who ... will first supply my invention to all his troops will surely conquer the Turks- yeo the world, for with them his army will be...
Forum: European Armoury 19th November 2013, 03:39 PM
Replies: 178
Views: 813,292
Posted By Raf
Or as as a coleague remarked does it come with a...

Or as as a coleague remarked does it come with a silencer ?
Forum: European Armoury 19th November 2013, 09:17 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 52,811
Posted By Raf
Something seems to have got lost in translation....

Something seems to have got lost in translation. I wasn’t claiming in my original post that Leonardo’s drawing was a flintlock type mechanism. It is clearly a matchlock with a self-opening pan. All I...
Forum: European Armoury 12th November 2013, 02:46 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 27,272
Posted By Raf
I think I agree. Their are some slight ...

I think I agree. Their are some slight contusions of metal on the inside at the base and peak of the comb that could be gas welds but it is genuinely difficult to be sure. As you point out you would...
Forum: European Armoury 12th November 2013, 09:40 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 27,272
Posted By Raf
Sorry , 3 was not from the same source ; uploaded...

Sorry , 3 was not from the same source ; uploaded by mistake . Heres another one that is. Note that the missing part of the visor looks as if its been cut away rather than not executed. Strange thing...
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