Author Topic: Ideas for future project (Read 942 times)

Double D · « **on:** July 24, 2009, 10:11:28 AM »

Southpaw and I both have a chunk of steel kicking around our shops that look a whole lot like a thunder mug in the raw. We have been talking about making a couple. I'll do the turning, Ernie will do the welding.

To help us with some ideas, would you guys post some pictures of thunder mugs.

KABAR2 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 24, 2009, 03:39:49 PM »

This is an original I used to own, the patina makes it look like iron but it is bronze, it had been fired so much
that the a previous owner long ago had bushed the touch hole with an iron bushing, I believe this was found in a river somewhere,
there was a clay like silt inside it and the iron bushing had almost completely rusted away there were markings on the
side " LOBCOB" and "SC" I bought it fairly cheap as the owner and everyone else thought it was an iron repro that someone
had aged........... I am giving this from memory..... so approx....Bore was 1 inch height about 10 or 11 inches dia at muzzle 3.5" to 4" base 6"?

RocklockI · « **Reply #2 on:** July 24, 2009, 04:06:01 PM »

Kabars idea gets my vote . thats the nicest TM i've ever seen .

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #3 on:** July 24, 2009, 04:10:29 PM »

I'm thinking of a thundermug in BB caliber!

Victor3 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 24, 2009, 09:41:49 PM »

Quote from: RocklockI on July 24, 2009, 04:06:01 PM

thats the nicest TM i've ever seen .

Mine's similar, but recently made and without all that horrible patina stuff on it.

Long live Brasso!

carronader · « **Reply #5 on:** July 25, 2009, 01:11:02 AM »

Brasso.............heretic,Hangin too good for you! $:-\$

subdjoe · « **Reply #6 on:** July 25, 2009, 07:00:23 AM »

How's this?

(sorry, sorry, had to do it)

carronader · « **Reply #7 on:** July 25, 2009, 08:57:03 AM »

not the thunder you have to worry about in these mugs

GGaskill · « **Reply #8 on:** July 25, 2009, 02:16:41 PM »

The ammonia is Brasso is not a good thing to use around artillery pieces.

RocklockI · « **Reply #9 on:** July 25, 2009, 03:17:37 PM »

Duraglit , i'm sorry but brass/bronze NEEDS to be polished . and it should always stay polished no exceptions .

i'm sorry ,that is just how it is . believe me when i say i wish it weren't true , but ....it is...!!! and there is nothing i ..or you ,can do about it .

if you wish you 'can' leave an old bronze piece dull and not shiny ....your call .

but for any modern made replicas ........wellll ....you could go to h#ll , maybe not right away but ....it's coming . and when it comes brass hell i have been there ...the condition is terminal....

because Once A Marine ,Always A MARINE ! spent 106 recoilless rifle casing can shine up to where they'll blind you in the sun . i'm not at all sure why it needed to be shinned as it was spent , but it absolutly did .

BUT IT DID . and so do your bronze cannons .

savy ? get to it .

except for my Brookes .30 cal parrot gun as it was smacked into the concrete on it's very first shot . so it is dinged ....and will never be polished out of respect for it's wishes , but these cases are very ,very rare.

but it does happen , please submit any doubtfull candidates to me for evaluation and i will let you know ,DD is every bit as qualified as i am!!!! .

Semper Fi fellow brass lovers , only trying to clear up any confusion .

Double D · « **Reply #10 on:** July 25, 2009, 03:34:18 PM »

No problems our thundermugs will be steel...anybody have any other thundermugs to show us?

KABAR2 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 25, 2009, 04:56:44 PM »

Where's Cannonmn? he should have a nice assortment!

dominick · « **Reply #12 on:** July 25, 2009, 05:12:30 PM »

Here are two.

thelionspaw · « **Reply #13 on:** July 25, 2009, 06:00:09 PM »

Is this cheating? It's 1.75

dan610324 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 25, 2009, 11:07:20 PM »

noooo thats not cheating
this is exactly how the first thunder mugs was invented

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #15 on:** July 26, 2009, 02:46:02 AM »

Here is not a thunder mug, but something that is VERY stable, is a casting and has clean lines.

KABAR2 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 26, 2009, 04:15:25 AM »

Quote from: Cat Whisperer on July 26, 2009, 02:46:02 AM

Here is not a thunder mug, but something that is VERY stable, is a casting and has clean lines.

Well if you could shoot it I guess it would be a jack of all trades..........

Terry C. · « **Reply #17 on:** July 26, 2009, 05:59:58 AM »

My recently constructed 1" bore...

On retrospect, I wish I'd used a thicker piece of steel for the flash pan, maybe 3/4" or 7/8". I used the same 5/8" plate that I cut the handle out of and it seemed plenty wide at the time, but it got narrow quick when I started dishing it out with the carbide burr.

I finally got up the nerve to fire it with priming powder and linstock (wearing muffs and shooting glasses, of course) instead of fuse. I loaded it up, poured a little FFFFg in the pan, tipped it back so that the priming charge would flow into the vent, and topped off the pan.

It really wasn't that bad. Fun actually, I plan on doing it more often.

I have a 4' linstock and was kneeling. I'm not sure I'd want to be closer than that.

GGaskill · « **Reply #18 on:** July 26, 2009, 06:05:34 AM »

A photograph from South Bend Replicas' web site.

thelionspaw · « **Reply #19 on:** July 26, 2009, 09:07:52 AM »

Terry C.: Now THAT is a work of art.

rc

RocklockI · « **Reply #20 on:** July 26, 2009, 03:36:05 PM »

i agree with lionspaw that is very nice !!!