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Frozen Black Powder Nipple Is Out!!!
IT'S OUT!! thanks to a combination of all you pards' suggestions: entropy, Jim Keenan, Onmilo, longrifleman, P95Carry, rbernie, and Chawbaccer.
The critter is a CVA (Connecticut Valley Arms) single-shot "Prospector" pistol made around 20 years ago I bought at the Las Vegas gun show. The nipple was so stuck I broke a nipple wrench trying to get it out.
So I put the gun frame in a vise with the nipple end up and tried needlenose pliers and screwdriver blades but it would not budge. I even broke one of my needlenoses. I decided to leave it like that for two weeks, alternating penetrating oil and then kerosene around the nipple to soak in. Then I bought size 1, 2 and 3 screw extractors at my local hardware store, and ended up drilling holes in the nipple to try the extractors. I saw right away I'd need to drill a hole for a #3 extractor because the smaller ones would probably break. Luckily, the hole for #3 was not so large that it would hurt the threads inside the gun frame. So I hammered the #3 extractor lightly into the nipple and had to keep tapping it in so it would not slip inside the nipple. I put a large crescent wrench on the square end of the extractor and then started to tap the whole affair into the nipple once with the hammer simultaneous with every slight counterclockwise push with the wrench, and after four times the nipple started to come out. YAY! Looking inside of the barrel, I saw the bore was in very good shape, and needed just some cleaning; no rust.
I was going to replace it with one of my Pietta revolver extra nipples but found out the Pietta ones were smaller with a finer thread. So I called CVA, who doesn't make that gun anymore, and they referred me to Deer Creek Products (all black powder) in Waldron, Indiana. They sold me the correct nipples, size 1/4 28, stainless steel, and mailed them to me in a couple of days. Deer Creek came though with flying colors as did you all guys. I'll post again to let you know how it fires. Thanks again. This is a great forum.
IT'S OUT!! thanks to a combination of all you pards' suggestions: entropy, Jim Keenan, Onmilo, longrifleman, P95Carry, rbernie, and Chawbaccer.
The critter is a CVA (Connecticut Valley Arms) single-shot "Prospector" pistol made around 20 years ago I bought at the Las Vegas gun show. The nipple was so stuck I broke a nipple wrench trying to get it out.
So I put the gun frame in a vise with the nipple end up and tried needlenose pliers and screwdriver blades but it would not budge. I even broke one of my needlenoses. I decided to leave it like that for two weeks, alternating penetrating oil and then kerosene around the nipple to soak in. Then I bought size 1, 2 and 3 screw extractors at my local hardware store, and ended up drilling holes in the nipple to try the extractors. I saw right away I'd need to drill a hole for a #3 extractor because the smaller ones would probably break. Luckily, the hole for #3 was not so large that it would hurt the threads inside the gun frame. So I hammered the #3 extractor lightly into the nipple and had to keep tapping it in so it would not slip inside the nipple. I put a large crescent wrench on the square end of the extractor and then started to tap the whole affair into the nipple once with the hammer simultaneous with every slight counterclockwise push with the wrench, and after four times the nipple started to come out. YAY! Looking inside of the barrel, I saw the bore was in very good shape, and needed just some cleaning; no rust.
I was going to replace it with one of my Pietta revolver extra nipples but found out the Pietta ones were smaller with a finer thread. So I called CVA, who doesn't make that gun anymore, and they referred me to Deer Creek Products (all black powder) in Waldron, Indiana. They sold me the correct nipples, size 1/4 28, stainless steel, and mailed them to me in a couple of days. Deer Creek came though with flying colors as did you all guys. I'll post again to let you know how it fires. Thanks again. This is a great forum.
