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Title: dimensions of original locks
Post by: Larry Pletcher on January 20, 2011, 11:23:57 PM

I ran across this on another forum.  The link is below:

http://www.feuerwaffen.ch/HTML/HTML%20Flintschloss%20Theorie%20mini/sld001.html (http://www.feuerwaffen.ch/HTML/HTML%20Flintschloss%20Theorie%20mini/sld001.html)

The text is German or Swiss, neither of which can I understand.  But it appears to give a number of dimensions for a group of original flintlocks.  Slide 22 seems to be a chart of those dimensions.  I hope someone here can help.  If I understand correctly, this may be a useful page.

Regards,
Pletch

Title: Re: dimensions of original locks
Post by: Stophel on January 21, 2011, 12:07:54 AM

The text is German AND Swiss.   ;D

Title: Re: dimensions of original locks
Post by: Stophel on January 21, 2011, 12:10:49 AM

The chart gives some dimensions of various locks.  The measurements will be in millimeters (though I don't get the touch hole listing, which has a + or - number...).

Title: Re: dimensions of original locks
Post by: JTR on January 21, 2011, 12:45:48 AM

Larry, thanks for posting that!
For general measurements, remember that 25.4 MM = 1 inch.

John

Title: Re: dimensions of original locks
Post by: whitebear on January 21, 2011, 04:47:03 AM

I tried with both translation programs that I have and could translate nothing.  If you get it readable in English please re post it.

Title: Re: dimensions of original locks
Post by: Joe S on January 21, 2011, 06:08:52 AM

Just out of curiosity, can a blacksmith make a lock to those specifications, or are these instructions for molded or drop forged parts?

Title: Re: dimensions of original locks
Post by: TPH on January 21, 2011, 05:35:34 PM

Quote from: whitebear on January 21, 2011, 04:47:03 AM

I tried with both translation programs that I have and could translate nothing.  If you get it readable in English please re post it.

As I understand it from my Aunt who was Swiss, the problem with translation is that the German language spoken in Switzerland (Deutsche Schweiz) is just different enough to not allow the standard translation programs to work. The same happens with the French (my Aunt) and Italian dialects spoken there, don't even think about the Romansh language native to 2 small areas of Switzerland. Here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, the members of the Mennonite community speak the 18th Century version of Deutsche Schweiz.

Title: Re: dimensions of original locks
Post by: Stophel on January 21, 2011, 07:36:27 PM

An automatic translator is not going to understand all the "gun words".

I could probably sit with my dictionary and translate it all, but from what I can tell from a quick once over, I wouldn't really learn anything I didn't already know.   ;)