Hot wax for sealing nipples?

Edventures said:

My grandpa always carried a chapstick ,I do the same.
It works for chapped lips, and sealing caps on nipples.
In a pinch it will lube a stuck zipper ,or a lose screw.
I've used it to help get wet kindling burning.
but yeah it will seal out moisture on your nipples.

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And don't we all like dry nipples.
On a serious note. IMO I carry and assume others do that I think the life of my family and I may well depend on the piece performing . Betting ones life on the reliability of a 17 century piece of hardware is like going to a Voodoo doctor for heart surgery. To step on a few more toes, BP guns are first and foremost a hobby, one does not take a knife to a gun fight except in movies.

This subject came up a long time ago and at the time I offered the idea of using super glue. The applicator would be perfect even for the pocket pistols. I never tried it myself but I intend to.

jaxenro, you've got a valid point, and further where it is relatively humid, I can see where one would want to seal his nipples as a precaution.

Well said Jaxenro!!
Just like money, when it comes to the care of ones nipples, there's no such thing as too much !!!!

Is a CnB revolver a preferred self defense weapon? No.

Is it a viable alternative when for legal or other reasons nothing else is available? Yes.

Am I advocating it in place of a modern cartridge firing pistol or revolver? No.

Am I advocating it in place of empty hands, a edged weapon, or a stick type weapon? Yes.

In many states you can't own a pistol until you are 21. So on that case it's either a modern shotgun, or rifle, or a CnB revolver (or a shorty percussion shotgun). Those might be the legal options and depending on various factors I could make the case for either of them.

I will continue to rely on using them as Colt intended and demonstrated. If it isn't broke...

The first thing I did (absolutely do if carrying or storing loaded) was to replace the nipples with Tresco. With CCI #10 caps it gives a very tight fit.

Since mine is a 1858 Remmie with 8" barrel concealed carry is out so I carry it it a half flap holster. With OX Wads seated under the balls I believe I have a very weather proof combination.

CnB revolvers are from the 19th century, not the 17th.


As long as your powder stays dry and your caps don't get fouled with moisture, they work every bit as well as a cartridge revolver.

Whughett, you know the saying about ass u me ,right?
I think we plainly stated why some may not be able to own a cartridge arms.
Some that can't may be offended since they can't own one, what should they do? Just be victims? I happen to know someone who is in that very situation and it isn't a hobby to him. He loves his family too.

I convert all my b.p. revols to cartridge and do not consider them any less a serious than my El Patron or Taurus .38 snubby.

45 Dragoon

I know that the original thread was directed to revolvers but more important to me is sealing the cap on a rainy day hunt.

You can buy an inexpensive side by side double barrel in your choice of size and have a far better home defense gun than any pistol.
Not much for concealed carry but if I felt my life was in danger I would do whatever it takes to carry a modern weapon.

Really? Modern gun !! Maybe someone else can get through !!!! SHEEEESH !!!!


I'm done.

45 Dragoon

With properly fitting caps one doesn't have need to seal them for storage.

swathdiver said:

With properly fitting caps one doesn't have need to seal them for storage.

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That's a fact no one wants to accept.

Been shooting C&B revolvers since the 70s and have never done anything other than use the proper fitting cap to the nipple. Yes, I keep em loaded all the time. Some as long as six months to a year depending on what I take to the range.

My grandpa always carried a chapstick ,I do the same.

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Reminds me of a story about a guy asking his wife, "why she always put a pan of water in the back of the stove when she baked a cake." She replied "her mother always did it." "But why" asked the husband?

The wife goes and asked her mother, "why she always put a pan of water in the back of the stove when she baked a cake?" She replied "her mother always did it." "But why, asked the wife?"

The mother goes to her mother (wife's grandmother) and asked, "why she always put a pan of water in the back of the stove when she baked a cake?" The grandmother replied, "I don't know why you do it, my stove wasn't level."

I use a piece of air hose from a fish tank to seal my cap to the nipple, and a bee's wax/coconut oil cookie over the ball to seal that end. I've carried my ROA for weeks in the rain set up like this and never expanded a misfire.

I think a dabl doya as they say, melted wax of the Bee kind on top the nipple of the Revolver kind!

The post about the "non-firearm" government view of c&b pistols has some credence here, and no paper trail.
I keep one c&b pistol loaded most all of the tine, and sometimes carry it concealed ( have a cc permit).
I usually fire it every week or so (not every day like Wild Bill Hickok)

Hey Dave, after reading all this again, it seems that some folks think insurance is just silly. I guess if Sam Colt was still making them, they might be ok but . . . . ITALIANS are making them!!! After what all I've seen from Italy, you NEED insurance!! Lol!!!

Mike
www.goonsgunworks.com

Sealing caps and nipples

Actually tested this several years back (posted in an old thread). Capped an unloaded cylinder , dripped some candle wax to fill up the area around the nipple, half submerged in a dish of water with caps down. All cylinders leaked.
Looked like the candle wax contracts as it cools.

Two places nipples leak, at the threads and under the caps.

Tried some primer sealer (Markron I think) around nipple and around caps. All cylinders leaked.

Used some beeswax mixed with just enough neetsfoot to make it soft enough to get it where it needed to be. packed the area around the caps full to make sure the threads and caps were sealed. Left in water 15 minutes. No leaks.
Loaded a cylinder, capped and sealed with beeswax (as a test) and left set 2 weeks. 3 caps fired fine. 3 didn't. Recapped those three and they fired o.k.
A real mess to clean up. All the beeswax turned to black gue.

So looks like, short term, beeswax will seal a cylinder, but if loaded very long the oil from the beeswax leaches up into the caps. How long? Didn't check that as the cleanup was such a mess I lost interest in further testing.

Oh, I might as well mention that I often resize caps as I like to have a tight fit.
Had a couple I thought were cracked, so I dropped them in a cup of water for a couple hours to dud them. Happened to notice nothing was really dissolved so left them overnight. Still wasn't dissolved. Dumped the water and set them in a corner of the cabinet for a couple weeks to dry out (dry climate here I might add). Capped an unloaded cylinder. All popped off and sounded o.k. Go figure. OYE

After cleaning my 1860 Army I slip the conversion in and put it on my nightstand for two legged critters who may get the foolish notion that my house is "Open to the public."

Its enough.

Friend of mine used to use non-hardening modeling clay on the cap to his rifle in rainy weather. Always worked, even when he fell crossing a stream and submerged it. Don't know if you could get in there to seal off caps on a revolver. Not much room to work with.