Another rookie question on patch box release

[Daryl Pelfrey]

So far ive only done two patchboxes. Used TOW release kit with the plunger button through toe plate. I know most put them in the top of butt plate. Is there another method which may be easier? I like the button in the toe plate but just curious. Besides never now I may like a different method.

[Mark Elliott]

I don't think there is anything like a standard patchbox release mechanism.    I use the systems that match the type of rifle that I am making, and even releases that look similar on the outside may be radically different on the inside.  There are almost as many mechanisms as there are gun makers.   That is probably an exaggeration, but you get the idea.   There are lots of different patchbox opening and release systems.    I would use the one that is right for the rifle you are building.     You have to examine the originals to get an idea how they did it.   Even then,   I will take a basic idea and implement it how it is easiest for me at the time, given the parts, materials, and tools that I have on hand.   

[Mike Brooks]

Putting a release in the upper sideplate of the patch box is fun, but very school specific.

[Mr. Bubbles]

Many early makers put a button that is slid upwards through the BP.  That's probably even more common than the buttons on the top or bottom.  Others put the buttons in the PB wings (on 4-piece PB's) , and maybe even disguised them as screws.  If you can think of it, it's been done.

[Daryl]

Pressing on the acorn of the toeplate, releases this patch-box.

[flehto]

I make the lid release that has the button through the Bplate return as in the dwg except the button is separate and made from an unthreaded  length of a wood screw w/ the slot filed off. This simplifies the making and installation of the release....the button is perpendicular to the top flat of the Bplate return. ....Fred