[modeleng] Re: new website
- From: "Chris Crosskey" <chris.crosskey@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:17:43 -0000
About a 1:4 scale model, ie 3inch to the foot... still a handy enough
caliber I'd have thought.... A 12 pounder is about a 72mm barrel bore
(rough estimate seeing as a 6-pounder is 57mm), which brings a model in
at around 18mm, so you'd be able to run shotgun cartridges in it, if you
derate the cartidges a bit (lets face it a flash, a bang and something
flies out of the end and hits a target 30 feet away is plenty from that
sort of thing surely) you should have no trouble... My dad's favourite
shotgun weighed less than six pounds so 17 lbs of brass should be able
to handle a half charge without any trouble at all.....
Chrisc
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shep
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 14:06
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Subject: [modeleng] Re: new website
Hi Jesse
Oh Dear, your 17 pounds would make a VERY small cannon indeed! I had
no
idea that a 12-pounder barrel weighed as much as 800 pounds!
Stay un-reconstructed - we like you that way!
How is you arm treating you?
Cheers! Hubert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:23 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: new website
> Your Tennessee Arms Factory could make good use of the 17 pounds of
heavy
> wall brass tubing to make a black powder smooth-bore cannon!
>
> Cheers! Hubert
>
>
> Hubert,
>
> The brass would indeed make a nice cannon if melted down, but to make
a
> decent Yankee killer I will need about 800 pounds as that is the
weight of
> a
> 12 pounder barrel.
>
> NECK, the un-reconstructed Rebel and proud of it.
>
> Jesse
>
>
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