dimensions of original locks

[Larry Pletcher]

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

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

[Stophel]

The text is German AND Swiss.   

[Stophel]

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...).

[JTR]

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

John

[whitebear]

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

[Joe S]

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

[TPH]

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.

[Stophel]

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.