Ramrod Pipes

[Eric Smith]

Can someone recomend a top level supplyer of ramrod pipes, particularly of the Reading/Berks style, if there is one.

[A.Merrill]

    Ted Cash

[Jim Kibler]

Most of the manufactured ramrod pipes I've seen don't look too good.  With some work they may be able to be improved. 

[Dphariss]

Can someone recomend a top level supplyer of ramrod pipes, particularly of the Reading/Berks style, if there is one.

Learn to make your own. You can't buy anything as good as you can make.
There was a series in MBs years back by Jay Close. Apprentices Notebook,
March and April 1979 Muzzle Blasts has excellent information on making rod pipes.

Dan

[Dr. Tim-Boone]

You just gotta get with this site..lots  of good stuff!!!

http://www.americanlongrifles.org/WorkShop_frame.htm

[Eric Smith]

I will take your advise and build my own. Any recomendations as to where to buy good sheet brass?

[Swampwalker]

All the major component suppliers -Track, MBS, Log Cabin, etc. - sell sheet brass, as do machinist supply, jewlery supply, etc.  Do a search, not hard to find.  Hobby stores sometimes sell it, but often not in the thickness required.  I like .040 for thimbles, gives a little thickness to work with for filed-in details.

[James]

My 2- cents
Cash pipes came with my "kit" and they could not be more wrong. I hadn't thought that I could make my own yet and bought a set of cast Armstrong pipes, cut some off each end and then had something that  at least LOOKED right

[DB]

Do you make your own now James?

[James]

Yes

[AndyThomas]

Most of the manufactured ramrod pipes I've seen don't look too good.

When I build a "mostly store bought parts " rifle, I still make the thimbles, for this very reason.

Here's how the thimbles on the Martin's Station raffle rifle were made: http://s498.photobucket.com/albums/rr347/FlintlockAndy/MakeThimbles/

Here's Jack Brooks' "how to" instructions: http://www.jsbrookslongrifles.com/theclassroom.htm

Hope this helps,
Andy