Tap-o-cap Percussion Cap Maker

[coldwarvet202]

i have done some more experimenting with my tap-o-cap. i got some kilgore american made caps on the internet (google roll caps.) their explosive spot is about 4x larger than the chinese super bang caps i started with and they bang almost like the factory made percussion caps rather than snap like the chinese ones. i put one american cap in the cup red side first, then a second cap with the explosive side out. with real black powder (Swiss) this combination will "turn the corner" on a .50 caliber muzzleloader and give you a good ignition. it did not work with Clean Shot powder substitute 2ff in the .50 caliber however. the chinese caps would not fire the .50 caliber either. lastly i tried the american caps on a revolver using Clean Shot 2ff and it fired fine. Moral of the story: buy american caps as they work so much better in more applications.

 

[ThomasT]

coldwarvet I did a google and must have missed what you found. Please post a link if you get a chance.

I have a tapocap I bought many years ago and I have never got it to set off anything. Not even a rem 1858 revolver. I would love to have this thing up and running. I hope I never have to depend on it. My local GS has been getting remington #10 &#11 caps in regular and selling them for $3.00 a tin. I buy a few each time I go in. I have had 4000 caps for years and now I have a little over 8000 so the tap o cap is just a novelty. Still it ought to work.

 

[coldwarvet202]

ratshooter-
try www.toyguns4u.com. they have kilgore and other american made caps. they will make all the difference in the world. good luck. let me know how you make out.

 

[wittzo]

Anybody want to get rid of their Tap-O-Cap? I can trade you a used Lee mold for a conical bullet designed for the Ruger Old Army? I don't feel like paying $40 for the Tap-O-Cap kit and don't need the mold.

 

[coldwarvet202]

try midsouth shooters supply. they're only about $24. definitely worth it.

 

[Al LaVodka]

Interesting how some view making your own caps is somehow closer to God when you're still using store-bought paper caps. I have been looking for something that stays on the nipples for the entire session so that aspect, at least, I can understand.
Al

 

[forestdavegump]

I would like to buy one if any body has one as mine was stolen and I have been un able to find its replacement!

 

[Jaymo]

I wonder how well copper flashing would work in place of aluminum cans?
Not that there's a need to go out and pay for copper flashing, when aluminum cans are free for the taking.

When I was a kid, we'd lay a roll of caps on it's side and smack the hell out of it with a heavy hammer. Talk about a bang. Talk about stupid. It's amazing most of us lived to adulthood, given some of the things we got away with growing up.

Man, I miss the old days, back when running from the cops got you nothing more than a ticket.

 

[HisSoldier]

Why would cap makers, percussion cap makers or toy cap makers, not use lead styphnate? It is supposedly less corrosion producing than anything else, and that would be the only thing I'd be wary of.

The old cap guns of my old days were made of the same material many modern high end guns are made of, pot metal, or more specifically Zamak. Zamak probably wouldn't corrode no matter what the caps used, but even my stainless guns (416 I assume) will corrode quickly with byproducts of chlorate or perchlorate combustion, and I think fulminate of mercury earned a bad reputation too.

I'm sure commercial percussion caps would use the least corrosive mixture possible.

 

[higene]

Tap O Cap

Having tried the Tap O Cap, I would rely on a flintlock before I would a Tap O Cap.

 

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Right On!!

 

[forestdavegump]

I like my flint lock rifles....It is hard to find a flint lock revolver so I had to tap o cap?

 

[ofitg]

So, do you guys who gave up on the Tap-O-Cap want to sell them???

Forestdavegump wants to buy one.

And I wouldn't mind having a spare.

 

[scrat]

heck id get one

 

[jpg366]

we'd lay a roll of caps on it's side and smack the hell out of it with a heavy hammer. Talk about a bang.

Yeah, my ears are still ringing.

 

[Skinny 1950]

I was using toy caps for quite a while with my Uberti 1851 Navy until a cap went off as I was putting it on the nipple,the ball shot out the side of the gun hit the frame and shaved a slab off. I don't know where the ball went but I sustained a minor injury to my thumb. Good thing it was pointed downrange or someone could have been hurt. Up to that point the toy caps were working great as they don't jam up the gun like the CCI #11's. Anyway the toy caps go off a lot easier that metal ones and could lead to injury.
Haven't been on this forum for a while as I live in Canukistan (Canada)
Why don't you check out Canadian Gun Nutz ......CGN ....similar layout etc.