Subject: Cannon Plans (wanted)

From: TABco <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 96 14:07:02 PDT

Looking for plans for a cannon, any style.

TABco <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Brooks)
Date: 3 May 1996 16:32:29 GMT

TABco ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Looking for plans for a cannon, any style.

Village Press has a few scale model cannons in their books.  You might check
a shop that sells black poweder firearms.  Somebody (Navy Arms?) sells/sold
castings for three different cannons--a 2" naval cannon, a 2" Cohorn mortar,
and I think the last was a Napolean.  A friend build the naval cannon and
keeps it in his gunshop.  We've fired it at the local club range when the
range is ordinarily closed--it's pretty wicked at 100 yards.

I've borrowed a Civil war cannon book from the same guy.  There are
enough photos and drawings to scale out plans for virtually all of the
cannons used then.

There is/was an outfit that made a 'beer can' cannon--a replica of a WWII
vintage towable piece, with handwheels for range and elevation.  It also
had shoddy welding, so the only time I saw it in operation, it just missed
seriously injuring a bystander.  BTW, the load was a 12 ounce can of
cannon-black powder, with the shell a concrete-filled beer can.  No rifling
in the tube, and the poweder can had a window of flash paper that was ignited
by a .38 special 'blank'--a primed case.

With decent welding, the latter would be awesome.  The bad weld was on a 
strip that held the falling-block breech block in the frame.  A lot simpler
than a cannon breech, but not a good place to have poor penetration.

Pete Brooks

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From: Bob Unitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 08:50:36 +0100

In article <[email-masked]>, TABco
<[email-masked]> writes
>Looking for plans for a cannon, any style.

By sheer serendipity, 'Model Engineer' has just commenced a
constructional series on building a 9-pounder brass smoothbore.

It starts in the current issue - Vol 176, No 4016.
-- 
Bob Unitt