I have a set of plans, I don't remember which, but roaming around the forums has scared me away, and you never know if the very 'best' machinists get it right the first time. A full-sized gun, it would be impressive belching black power smoke, even firing blanks, but a job to clean afterward, and a lot of work to load all the chargers before hand. I still have the drawings around here somewhere. The chargers were machined from a solid round blank with a chamber for powder, patch and ball, and a nipple for the percussion cap. Instead of cartridges, the gun used black powder 'chargers' that fed from a hopper on top of the gun. Years ago I picked up a set of drawings patterned after the original black powder version of the Gatling, produced from the patent drawings. I wold be so bummed out after 1000 machine hours or so to have a gun that would miss fire or not eject shells. I would like to ask a question if the gun was made full scale would there be so many problems. I have read all the forum threads and there seems to be many design problems with these guns on that scale. I have bought both plans inquisitive about the drawings. On the Gatling gun forum the rgg gun seems more popular than the d+e gun (in scale model form). Great question i have been asking myself.
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