Neophyte needs wisdom re: 25 pounder gun refurb

[Dan Johnston]

OK, update:

Met some of the lads in the outfit last night. Good people, very interested in helping out. HUGE institutional support on this job, which is wonderful.

Got the gun to cock and click once we figured out we had that one piece of the firing mechanism in backwards. Such are the trials of the neophyte. Learning new stuff daily, it seems.

Ran a hedgehog down the bore, producing a horrifying cloud of rust. That will not do. Job one next week is a pail of CLP, the same hedgehog, and much scrubbing.

We are missing an essential piece - the wee t-handled cocking piece on the firing block has wandered away. We would very much appreciate either the loan of one that we could copy and return (paying postage both ways, of course) or drawings sufficiently detailed to recreate one from them.

Can someone lend us one? We have a millwright/machinist in the crew who could turn one out in his lunch hour at the shop...

Cheers,

Dan