Who knows or remembers what this is...NOT Liz Truss's spare wig..
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Black powder bore scrubbing.
kenbro
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Dead pig
enfieldspares
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It is "tow" made from the flax plant and used, amongst caulking or by some plumbers, by some shooters for removing lead fouling from the barrels of a shotgun. The tow somehow "grips" the lead and brings it out on "stuck" to the fibres.
www.worldofwool.co.uk
There are hemp and jute based similar looking products so WYTONPJS was also technically near enough on the same track. It is similar looking stuff but for gun cleaning the falx based stuff was best.
Nowadays with better quality harder lead shot rather than the very soft shot of days past it isn't often needed. But if you do it works well.
Natural Flax/Linen Top
Natural flax is a plant fibre. It has a natural sheen and is long, strong and golden in colour.
www.worldofwool.co.uk
There are hemp and jute based similar looking products so WYTONPJS was also technically near enough on the same track. It is similar looking stuff but for gun cleaning the falx based stuff was best.
At one time you'd find an odd looking jag in an old shotgun case and that was for this tow. The wider head at the front end stops the stuff being pulled off as you reverse the jag to bring the cleaning rod back out of the barrels. And the flange at the bottom the same as it goes up.
I can remember the stuff in my late father's gunroom. The loose fibres when you cut a length of it used to get all over the place. It was never a substitute for a proper clean with a phosphor bronze brush or a Payne-Gallwey type brush but for removing stubborn lead fouling it got the job done.Nowadays with better quality harder lead shot rather than the very soft shot of days past it isn't often needed. But if you do it works well.
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And corrosive residues from early primer compounds.
Swedish
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Why do I feel strangely aroused?
enfieldspares
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I hope you haven't stirred something in me I've tried to control all these past years...
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enfieldspares
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OTOH it still doesn't compete with my wife's choice of hairstyles over the years.
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enfieldspares
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With a fine show of tow like that he'd have been welcomed at clay pigeon grounds throughout the UK after any "Skeet 100" registered shoots!
HonestJohn
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No selfies please Sir
Rhodesianjess
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Oooh, you are awful
Heym SR20
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Boats usually use caulking cotton between the seams. You bang it in between the planks. When the boat goes into the water it swells up sealing the seams, but more importantly adding lots of tension between the planks stiffening up the hull so the planks don’t move around. If you don’t let a boat take up properly you can quickly weaken it as all the planks move around their fastening which then break, and then the planks fall off which means you get a wee bit wet.
enfieldspares
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Yes I remember when we had had the wooden hull boat out of my pond for a few months that we had to allow it to sink itself when we put it back in the water and then after a few days recover it and bale it out before it was once more watertight and we could use it again. Never had that problem with the fibreglass boat.
HonestJohn
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Trouble with fibreglass is like synthetic stocks, they don’t give you any pleasure from making them, using them, or looking at them. They have no soul and need no love and ongoing care to look after.
And yes, I do have a rifle with a synthetic stock, only one
But it gives me no joy to go hunting with, it’s there in cases it’s ****ing it down basically, or for friends/guests so they don’t damage my wooden onesSimilar threads
