Well I'm glad someone else is doing a few experiments. BRAVO! Dockholiday, don't let the nays sayers (family and friends) stop you. Keep up your experiments, if only to inform the few of us who give a darn about learning something new occasionally. By the way, Kansas Cannons makes a point to tell everyone that they use a form of epoxy called JB Weld to hold their cannon trunnions in a socket in the tube just as you did. They are listed on our sticky list here as a vendor right near the top of the list. We have seen them and their cannon display at the huge Wannamaker Gun Show with 3,800 tables in Tulsa twice a year for as many years as I can recall. Now they must be doing something right to have the success that they do.
These are no firecracker cannons with miniscule recoil either. They are described by the vendor as:
Barrel lathe turned and bored, trunnions set in milled pockets in barrel and J.B. Welded in place.
A great cannon to fire or set on a large mantle or corner of a room.
1.7" bore with a 1" powder chamber. Barrel alone weighs 20 pounds.
18" long with a nearly 3" base ring"
They say these are Signal Guns, but the wink wink is a picture of a golf ball next to the cannon. These trunnions have to be tough. I can get a twenty lb., feather weight, cannon to do back flips with a 1" chamber and just a regular golf ball!
We will be watching the rest of the series.
Tracy
