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Offline GGaskill

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Carbide Cannon Source
« on: November 18, 2006, 07:46:33 AM »
I stumbled over Roy's Big Bang Cannons while trying to find out what a clinch ring is.

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Re: Carbide Cannon Source
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2006, 12:34:22 PM »
I missed the reference to the clinch ring.

But, here's the 105mm version:

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Re: Clinch rings
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2006, 03:16:15 PM »
I was looking at the 24 pounder carriage plan on the USS Constitution CD-ROM and noticed that the eye bolts were retained by clinch rings, which meant nothing to me.  The drawing showed the retainers as very thin but gave no detail.  A Google search found lots of references (mainly to buffing wheels) including the Roy's site but none of them made any sense in a cannon/nautical context.  I finally found a glossary entry at Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks that gave a sufficient definition:  "clinch ring--A metal washer peened onto an iron bolt to help secure timbers."
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