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Old 02-10-2013, 08:25 PM
petew petew is offline
 
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If you do not get good spark first make sure you have real flint in the jaws. Set the flint to barely clear the frizzen at half cock. Make sure it is the right size, and square to the frizzzen. The frizzen must be clean and dry!!!NO OIL.
Still poor or no spark, remove the lock , cock and fire it in your hand . without powder!!
If it sparks now, you have something hanging up in the trigger or lock. Often screws have been overtightened creating binding. Take a look for interferences in the lock to wood, springs and the trigger sear.
If when you tested the lock for spark outside the gun it is not sparking and you have a good flint, set properly, turn the flint over, and try again. Some like bevel up some bevel down.
look for something binding. Does the frizzzen flip over easy or hard? Does the frizzen fit squarely on the pan? Often it is just a matter of smoothing the frizzen to spring contact to make it smooth and reliable.
If the hammer falls quickly, and the flint makes good contact and still no spark you may have a bad frizzen, a $20 fix and 10 minutes of your life. Do not oil the frizzen. It stays dry or no sparks will be made.
One thing to remember, Flinters will shower the person beside you with a jet of very hot gas when the charge goes off.
Pick the vent between shots, Run a damp patch down the bore before you reload, use good flints and real BP and you will see just how reliable a flinter can be.
Let the inline guys use sabots, and pistol bullets. Round balls or maxi's of pure lead do just fine in our guns.

Pan Primer for Flinters.

Last edited by petew; 02-10-2013 at 08:35 PM.
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