How to get bit of toothpick out of nipple

I would try 425 maybe 450.

THERE is no powder loaded right??!!!!

I figured.
You can't really over heat it , it can take anything that a oven can throw at it.
You will need to leave it in for quite some time if you use the oven. On the stove top, you should be able to see when it starts smoking. I would put it nipple side down on the burner if it were me.

Btw,
Let me know how it goes!

Put some vinegar in the blocked chamber.
Then add a little bit of baking powder or baking soda to the vinegar.
Then quickly block the chamber mouth with your finger.
The pressure from the CO2 bubbles will build up which could force the wood to back out of the hole.
After a few minutes, rinse the solution out of the chamber and repeat if necessary.
Here's a link about it and there's also videos about it on youtube, --->>> https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-happens-when-you-mix-vinegar-and-baking-soda#:~:text=When vinegar and baking soda,carbonic acid and sodium acetate.&text=This creates the bubbles and,mix baking soda and vinegar.



A similar idea would be to put a grain of powder into the nipple before capping it and trying to fire it out.
The difference between the 2 methods is that using the percussion cap with powder, you're trying to force the large end of the wood through a small hole.
Whereas by using the vinegar and baking powder, you're trying to back the small tip of the wood out of the hole in reverse.

Even if you burned the wood with a lighter, the carbon residue may still end up blocking the hole.
The vinegar solution can help to open the hole as well as using a grain of powder and percussion cap.
Both methods would be used together to get the hole open since the vinegar would act as a softening agent.

If you can find a thin enough paper clip and straighten it out by removing the bends, it might be stiff enough to be used as a nipple pick.
Or go to a guitar shop and see if you can obtain a stiff piece of guitar string, piano wire or music wire.
If there's a piano tuner in your area, he would have some.

Music/piano wire can be obtained from some hobby shops and Home Depot.
It comes in different diameters but the Home Depot piano wire appears to be "1.24mm diameter. Measured With Accurate Micrometer." which equals .0488".
Another answer stated that it was .050.

1. http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/k+s/k+...MI1fbfhZf16wIVip6zCh0fRQFUEAQYBCABEgI1hfD_BwE

2. https://www.homedepot.com/p/OOK-9-f...Vip6zCh0fRQFUEAQYAiABEgLz8fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Good tips!

If you use the vinegar, be careful with where it splashes as it and bluing do not get along and be sure to wash it all off really well.

Ephraim Kibbey said:

If you use the vinegar, be careful with where it splashes as it and bluing do not get along and be sure to wash it all off really well.

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He would be able to remove the cylinder from the frame.
And could put the rest of the gun in a plastic bag.

So, did you get it out?
If so, which method worked?
You know they sell torch ciggy lighters pretty cheap. Since you don't have a BIG torch, you might go that route.

Check if you have a Harbor Freight in your area or look at them on line, they carry cheap tools, including needle nose pliers of assorted sizes.

I think I only paid about 10.00 for this at the local " quicky mart"

Heir Kommt Die Sonne said:

Nope. It's still not out yet. Still thinking what I should do. The wood pick is hanging out the chamber end, but won't budge with percussion caps. This is why I'm hesitate to try the vinegar and baking soda method because I don't know if the force created would truly push the pick back through the hole or not.
If I had really thin pliers I could probably take them out.

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Which end of the nipple did you originally stick the toothpick in?
Through the chamber end or the cap/cone end?

I still say heat it up.
Then after that maybe try popping another cap!

It's already been said in this thread but it likely really is as simple as getting or making a nipple wrench (which you really should have anyway) removing the nipple, and poking the pice of wood out with a nipple pick, piano wire, safety pin, needle, ect.

I use a straight dental pick. Works perfectly. Goes all the way through. You can get them on eBay for hardly anything.

OK, maybe I'm missing something here with the vinegar/baking soda reaction. (Not something I would recommend due to corrosion chances.) Wouldn't it be simpler just to use a bored rubber stopper that fits the bore then use an air line? Or there is the hydraulic method where you fill the cylinder half full of water then use a home made piston down the bore. (the piston can be as simple as a piece of soft leather superglued to a wood dowel. Still a simpler method would be to boil the cylinder in water. the heated water would help dissolve the lignin holding the toothpick together and the obstruction could be blown out by mouth pressure.

No, it will swell, but get softer.