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A 1/5 Scale Napoleon Cannon

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TLGriff:
Here's a little cannon I built a few years back (like 35). It's a 1/5 scale shooting replica of a Civil War Napoleon cannon. I researched the project by taking a trip to Virginia and touring some of the battlefields, tape measure, camera and sketchbook in hand and came back with quite a collection of dimensioned sketches to base my project on. The barrel has a .94" bore and shoots a .88 lead ball using about half an ounce of black powder. It's made of free machining brass and weighs in at about 20 pounds. The carriage is made of hard maple. The wheels are about a foot in diameter, have spokes that wedge into the hub just like the real thing with a steel tire shrunk on to hold it all together.

The cannon is starting to show her age a bit in patina. I do polish the barrel fairly regularly, but the carriage just gets an occasional wipe down. This thing is far from a showpiece and gets fired regularly. It makes a deafening roar that you can feel in your chest more than hear. If you look in the video section of my YouTube channel, there is a video of it in action "deactivating" a computer hard drive.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Tom

angus:
your you tube link does not work for me

Meldonmech:
Hi Tom

                    That is a fine looking cannon, well done

                                                                                 Cheers David

TLGriff:
Sorry, my fat fingers made a typo in the link. It should work now.

Thanks David, I've had a lot of fun with it.

Tom

DaveH:
C'on Tom - your 'fat fingers' are still not working right.  :lol: That link is to your 'Stevens favorite .....'

Good job that coke can is there otherwise I would swear it was full size.  :bow:
 :beer:
DaveH

PS. Scroll down to the bottom of Tom's You tube page to see the video

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