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Originally Posted by John Dallas
Certainly not elegant, but I have used pencil erasers for the job
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An interesting idea, but I can feel the founding gunmaker turning over in his grave...
Your suggestion does bring up an interesting point- if you want to imitate the resistance of a live primer-over many years, what type of plastic should you use? The black plugs on my old caps are very hard, but that may very well be a factor of age and I doubt they had most plastics in 1930.
I'll bet there is a real (read mechanical) engineer out there who can calculate the properties of a live primer. My guess is that the result will be a compromise, starting a bit hard and moving softer over the years. In other words, you should replace snap caps "caps" on guns that need then every few years.
I'll visit a local plastics company next week and see what they can do.
Thanks for your replies,
Patrick
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