Post by brokennock on Jan 5, 2021 2:15:03 GMT -7
All right. Here’s a picture. You can see the light behind it but I don’t know if that much is normal.
If you are loosing powder out of it, it is not normal. There shouldn't be a gap at all, but if you are loosing powder it needs to be addressed.
In the meantime, seal the pan with some beeswax/oil lube. I make mine with wax and coconut oil, used to use olive oil.
I make two consistencies, a soft one with a shot of Murphy's Oil Soap added for patch and wad lube, and a stiff one without the soap that is very hard but greasy feeling but melts and softens with the warmth of my hands. I keep a small tin of this second one in my shot pouch as an metal protectant. I run a bead of it around my barrel at the front edge of my cow's knee in wet weather, and, I use it to seal the pan once primed and closed in damp weather. Just smear some around the edge after closing the frizzen.
