DIY percussion caps/paper toy gun caps

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I'm experimenting with heavy aluminum foil to make percussion caps for my Hawken. I have a few rolls of caps that I bought at the dollar store years ago, but they all seem to be out of them now.
Has anyone else tried this, and is anyone else seeing toy gun roll caps in the Dollar store or anywhere else?
 
Have not seen roll caps in a long time, but have made pretty good use out of the stuff in the plastic caps.
I do have a tap-o-cap and make double layer aluminium caps. Brass shim stock works really well too. Sometimes the caps are re-useable. I gently scrape out the compound of the red caps and mix with some black powder for a bit of ommff. Moisten with a bit of acetone, let dry and spray with dollar store hair wax. There is a glue called duco cement out there that you apparently can mix with acetone . That seals up the caps when it dries. 9 out 0f 10 work if you get a good mix with enough of the cap compound in there.
Have also used the red caps topped off with some black powder, those work pretty much 100% of the time. Use those on my 1860 as they take up a lot of room, and the nipples seem to be too short for regular caps.
 
I read once an interesting improvisation that technically should work. Something about small pistol primers inside very short segments of plastic tubing from fish tank.
Not sure if this caplock rifle only or sixgun compatible too.
Sounds like something that would fragment like mad though.
 
This thread is too funny! I was in Banff this past summer and a thrift store had a box of boxes of paper caps. It said 99 cents on it and I thought they meant per box but no it was for all the boxes. I walked away with like 75,000 caps on paper rolls for 99 cents!!!!!
 
Brutus said:
I read once an interesting improvisation that technically should work. Something about small pistol primers inside very short segments of plastic tubing from fish tank.
Not sure if this caplock rifle only or sixgun compatible too.
Sounds like something that would fragment like mad though.
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https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/2259925-No-percussion-caps-anywhere?p=18779942&viewfull=1#post18779942
 
zuke said:
I had a tap-o-cap system a long time ago. The instructions said to use aluminum pop/beer cans.
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I made my own tap-o-cap. Uses double thickness beer cans


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The cap gun round clips with 6 shots work on nipples set for #10 caps. Cut individually and just press on , impressive report. They do work on 11's as well, just too difficult to stretch over. They are German made and very consistent.
 
Brutus said:
I read once an interesting improvisation that technically should work. Something about small pistol primers inside very short segments of plastic tubing from fish tank.
Not sure if this caplock rifle only or sixgun compatible too.
Sounds like something that would fragment like mad though.
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Tried this last week. The tube seems to keep everything intact. Does not work on open top colt revolvers, not enough clearance, and barely works on my Old army. Should work ok on rifles, but i`m not sure how often i`d reuse the tube bits.
 
You can buy the powders to reload your own old caps from :22LRRELOADERS.COM they sell the stuff to reload 22 rimfire. It works well , you have to mix the three parts together. But it not a hazardous material, and can come across the border. No problems. I think I still have three kits.... it saids you can make 2000 rounds of 22lr per kit.
 
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quinnbrian said:
You can buy the powders to reload your own old caps from :22LRLOADERS.COM they sell the stuff to reload 22 rimfire. It works well , you have to mix the three parts together. But it not a hazardous material, and can come across the border. No problems. I think I still have three kits.... it saids you can make 2000 rounds of 22lr per kit.
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The hammer and nipple fairly efficiently spreads and splits my caps when fired. Not much to reuse.
 
Painkillers said:
The hammer and nipple fairly efficiently spreads and splits my caps when fired. Not much to reuse.
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quinnbrian, is referring to reloading rimfires with the 22lrreloader primer compound, they sell tap-o-caps if you want to make your own caps out of pop cans.
 
yomomma said:
Unfortunately no, it was a "wonder if I can make one" project. Labour intensive useing the few tools I have.

I have the drawings somewhere. I can try to find them if someone wants them
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Maybe you could post it here, would be great to have it “ on file”
Cheers

Edit....just looked on their web site again, they do sell #10 and 11 cap makers.... good site! Looks like $49.99 per cap maker die set...pretty cheap!
 
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Can-down said:
quinnbrian, is referring to reloading rimfires with the 22lrreloader primer compound, they sell tap-o-caps if you want to make your own caps out of pop cans.
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Right, but he also mentioned using the compound to put in "your old caps". I took that to mean used, spent caps. If anyone has a source for "tap-o-caps" I'll certainly buy one?
 
Painkillers said:
Right, but he also mentioned using the compound to put in "your old caps". I took that to mean used, spent caps. If anyone has a source for "tap-o-caps" I'll certainly buy one?
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I missed that part of his post, here's the website for primer compounds and Cap makers,

https://22lrreloader.com/
 
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