Mystery Tools

[Steppenwolf]

I am stealing Stencollector's milsurp thread idea. Here are three tools used with blackpowder firearms. You must guess what they are and their names. I tried to take photos but my camera... So I grabbed three stock photos to represent what I have.

 

[green]

1) ?
2) P1853 Enfield privates tool
3) US tool for 50-70 Springfield.

 

[t-star]

top one's a nipple pick/screwdriver

 

[Pblatzz]

1) Brown Bess screw driver & flash hole pick
2) NCO 1853 Enfield multi tool
3) Looks like a variation of the US Model 1866 Rifle Musket ("2nd Allen") 3-Bladed Combination Tool.

Pete

 

[Steppenwolf]

You guys are too good.

1)Triangular Musket tool, Brown Bess, turnscrew vent pick which also fits the hole in the #### screw.

2)Enfield Sargent's Combination Musket tool, worm, ball puller, vice, turnscrew, nipple pick and oil bottle - thats all isn't it? Thanks MC forgot the nipple wrench and that it is also a ramrod handle. A marvelous piece of kit.

3)U.S. M1855 Musket tool, turnscrew, the "wrench end" is used as a mainspring vice and nipple wrench.

 

[mooncoon]

that funny bump in the middle of #2 is a mainspring clamp. You #### the gun, put the U shaped hook over the spring and release the hammer which allows you to remove the mainspring. In the photo the U comes out as a bump because you are looking straight down on it. The knurled cap between the two screw driver blades is the lid to an oil container and the opposite end is a nipple wrench.

cheers mooncoon