Anvil 042: Kammerlader Metal Refurbishment 

Watch the last 45 seconds after the outtro, to see Bruno editing at his best. Enjoy

That last shot with the music and the discharge with the coordination was absolutely award-winning

I went to the 24 hour Kammalader store once. Got there just as the guy was locking up. I said "Hey, aren't you supposed to be open 24 hours?" and he replied "Yeah, but not in a row."

I didn't realize just how perfect the combo of industrial machining and classical music happens to be... I need more of this in my life...

The last 2 minutes of this video is a master display of editing - Bruno is to be commended! I betcha Mark's shoulder still hurts to this day!

One thing that impresses me the most with your channel is the care and expertise you seem to put into making these working tools WORK again. You restore things the way they should be, with the skill of a craftsmen, not the Victorian "I like armor shiny, let me wire wheel off the guiding and blue of this 16th century armor for fancy dress parties" or the overly obsessive "patina" nutbags that think leaving something looking like a rusted pile of crap is somehow "preserving" it.

...once again, my friend, you show convincingly that "You da MAN" when it comes to restoration. I seriously enjoy watching a master of his craft at work...

That leather piece is called a "klikklær" in Norwegian. Simply translated to "click leather". To "klikke" a gun in Norwegian is a common description of dry fire it.

I like how the “customer” is Eric from IraqVeteran8888

I’m always reminded when looking at Marc’s tools. It’s the artist and not the tools that make the art. I’m guessing I could build the same shop with $7,500 worth of tools, but I’d have to spend two years building all the jigs and sharpening all the chisels which would cost another $100,000 in hours not including medical bills. 😊

The slow motion shots at the end of the video are awesome. To see the recoil shock wave going back through the firer is amazing!

when you work with decimals it's pretty similar to metric as long as you stay in the same unit if you work in fractions and change units, you chose to make your life a misery

The slow motion shots at the end of the video are fantastic. And the music was on point. Great video as always.

Fantastic. Perfect music. Last 45 seconds had me smiling. Thanks Mark and crew. Really enjoyed this video.

50 years down the road when I'm dead Mark you have an amazing sense of humor I love your videos because of how informative they are me entertainment and just for gold standard one-liners you say I can't wait for a new video

Remarkable piece of work Mr Novak ... truly remarkable. Part engineering, part science, the rest is art, alchemy and magic.

Freehandin that taper like a boss!!! Manual lathe work really is a dieing art. Ppl ive worked with could only push the green button and check with a go/no go guage... and they introduced themselves as machinists lol. Im so glad I found this channel, its quite informative and entertaining. Thank you to all at your shop.

15:30 peck, peck, peck, peck. As a recently retired Coastguardsman I appreciate this channel and these videos. I got into a machining position and plan on furthering my knowledge in that area. I then want to apply it to gun smithing. Thanks again for the videos. They’re giving me inspiration to start a new path in life at 40 years old.

I gotta say, of all the few hundred channel's I'm subscribed to, from music lessons, to history, to Pewdiepie, and minecraft-er's, this is one of the coolest. I get so many tips and tricks to do on my own projects that aren't even firearm related.

this is your best video yet

The music with the old in out of peck drilling on that lathe tickled the troll and the machinist in me.

Watching you working is therapeutic.

My mother played me this music back when I was a boy. I loved it then and do still, and I will be 68 next month! However, once a teacher... The Hall of the Mountain King is the last piece when they are firing the thing. The whole piece is the 'Peer Gynt Suite', and is gorgeous! Oops. Just saw the full title in the descriptioin!!!!!

Great work Mark, love all the videos even the repeats...keep it going. Fantastic buddy

That is one of the finest, most well made videos on RU-vid. If there was an Oscar of sorts for the best RU-vid video, this definitely would make it to the finals.

When you mention hunting with one of these, first thought was IV8888 Eric was the customer.

Terrific video! I also follow Eric on his chanel. Mark, I think you're correct in saying 50 years from now nobody will be left who can machine parts on a lathe. My father could, unfortunately while still with us, he's no longer able to operate any machining equipment, and sold it several years ago. But to see the work you do, and then watch the marvel of that antique roar back to life, flames from the muzzle, I could watch it all night. Great work!

That was an amazing and enjoyable video. Mark you do it well. Thanks for the entertaining and informative time!

Mr. Novak I love your videos. I'm just starting out in gunsmithing and I haven't found anyone near where I live that will take on an apprentice. I'm not asking you to take me on because it's quite a ride from where I live in Georgia to Charleston. I have been refurbishing a Remington Model 58 that was my Dad's. Being that he passed away over twenty years ago I want to get this gun back to factory condition. I haven't been able to find any gas rings that work and I just recently made a set based on the drawing Remington had available. I was able to get the shotgun to fire and cycle for the first time in nearly fifty years. I got the thing as a basket case and have taken my time and rebuilt the entire gas system and made a new magazine tube for it. I'm now in the process of resetting the gun and I hope to be finished with it before my Grandfather passes away. Watching your videos I realize that my Grandfather was right when he said a gun is nothing more than a machine and any machine can be fixed if you know how it works. If you ever get a chance to work on a chain gun I would to see the video and an explanation of how they work. Thank you for keeping history alive.

That hammer spring gets a workout both up and down. Thanks for the repost.

Well I don't have anything better to do so why not watch all of the anvil series again, keep it coming!

Speaking as a machinist and not a gunsmith, is there any reason that you wouldn't cut that insert to be the slightest interference fit, press it in and then fire a few shots with a few extra grains of powder or an extra wad around the bullet to expand the sleeve to mechanically lock it in place vs epoxy which while it doesnt have to withstand much in terms of force, does have to deal with the heat ..

You make me want to be a gunsmith so bad.

My favorite saying is it cant be tight if its liquid because sometimes you gotta heat that shit up to about that point to get it free

I always appreciate your choice of background music....

Guess this was made in Kongsberg Norway. I have a Model 1960 that is a mess. Now i want to se what i can do with it. Your videos are realy good, fun to watch.

What type of metal was used for the chamber and what was the FPS of that big slug :) , nice job .

Classic I heard back then; “a thou or two at a thime.” Mark, you are a legend.

Yes Indeed! delightful to watch this stuff . Would have loved to see what it does to the target!

I love watching you work, you have made lockdown in uk that much better.

I have watched more than a few rifle shooters that have their forearm underneath and aligned with the barrel when they shoot, bet they would not do it more than once with the Kammerlader.! the slow-motion was awesome to see all the leakage at the breech and the way it bounced the hammer off the nipple - looks like there will be no issues trying to get the fired cap off the nipple. :-) You guys are great, thanks for sharing!

Sir you're one hell of a gunsmith love your work love your music love the cigars

Thanks for not blasting my ears with electronic hardstyle music or whatever they call it. Though it's not quite my genre, your music at least is relaxing and doesn't make me mute your video.

Watching the lathe work reminded me of the old machinist’s gag: measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an axe...

I love this show. Your work and presentation are First Rate

im sure you must have had to choose not to thread this sleeve and breach block, then screw them together with some green locktite. did you make that choice because of cost/time? is it a question of available tooling? im so used to seeing abom, and ToT threading stuff like this, i dont expect to see it done any other way, and i just want to explore the thought process there. thanks a bunch.

The Norwegian Kammerlader were produced between 1842 to about 1870. More information here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammerlader?wprov=sfla1

Very cool old gun! Great work bringing it back to life.

I would sweep you floor and clean your shop every day ! Just to learn a little of what you know . Keep the great videos coming .

ummmm, Accraglass you say... I would have though you would use JB Weld on a metal part since JB can be milled and is heat resistant.

question , why acrglass not green loctite

Please don't take this as anything other than an informational question, but why wouldn't it be better to drill out the current nipple threads, weld in a plug, and drill and tap for a standard nipple? Otherwise, in the event of damage/breakage of the fabricated nipple, another will need to be machined to keep the gun in service. Thank you for the great videos.

Coming in late with comment, but it may help your viewers in the future. You could have used a ball nosed plunge (center) cutting mill in the tool post and the part in the lathe, or the mill in the lathe chuck with the part centered in the tool post, to get the cup detail at the bottom of the insert tube and not have a through hole in the sleeve. Drill the sleeve with a drill about 1/16" smaller dia. than the finish ball mill dia. Drill down to a little less than the distance the ball end is from the straight sides of the mill. Mark the total depth on the mill, and mill down with a slow feed rate and proper cutting speed until you reach the depth required. Remember ALL drills cut a little eccentric with a three lobed circular cross section, mills don't that's why you drill smaller and mill to size. For an air bearing fit between the parts, get the O.D. of the part down to .001 and use a 600 grit cloth strip for sanding/polishing to final size TESTING THE FIT OFTEN. The cloth sanding strip can be used internally to polish the interior of the original block by making a wooden dowel with a slit in the end and winding the polishing cloth around the dowel and running it inside the part while the sleeve is captured in the vice and the dowel/600 grit cloth is used to polish the inside of the block. I would suggest making a test part with an air bearing fit, then get the actual dimensions and make an interference fit about .002 in. to be assembled by heating the block to 300 Deg. and cooling the insert tube with dry ice. Have it set up to, be pressed in quick because you don't have much time before the parts stabilize temp and stick together like they were welded.

600 grains of hate powered by 140 grains of get it there.

Norwegian Kongsberg M1842 and norwegian music . First time when the shooter did not have to put charge and bullet the long way from the muzzle .

Who’s crazier; the man who agrees to fix it or the one that shoots it?

As a machinist I am wondering why you would not shrink fit the liner into the breach. It would require a sacrificial liner to lap the barrel recess.

The only correct way to handel a kammerlader is by listening to some Edvard Grieg while handling it.

Love the music during the machining, very nice!

Jim here again. I really do enjoy so much your instructional videos.

Wow, just wow. Thank you so very much, I love watching a craftsman at work and a concert is a grand bonus...

Should have known Old iraq8888 would have u turning and burning to finish up in a week ! I c he knows who 2 call when the rabbit whole gets to deep !! Awesome video and incredible work ! U have saved a beauty of a weapon !!

And the radar said?

Curious, is this technically a muzzle loader, or breech loader, given that loading is from the muzzle end of the breech block.

Love the music, and your work. Thanks

You never disappoint in your craft Mark. I love all 4 channels and I sure hope that you had your turn firing that incredible piece of history.

here in norway we can buy new reproduction nippels for kammerlader`s can send you the link to the webpage if you want it

credit to you mark as you are the only youtuber who as taken the time to get back in touch with me. i know i am a limey lol but no ones perfect

End the day the Novak way. Thanks Mark, I've just spent 3/4 of an hour listening to classical music , watching and learning and things going bang. Very relaxing.

Great video as always. That’s like a canon! At 37:35 you call it a ‘capped live muzzleloader’ but I thought it was a breech loader? I’ll bet Ron Swanson would enjoy this video with a glass of Lagavulin Scotch ..

I don't know if you have covered this in another video or not, how do you measure threads as you were explaining how to make screws? Thank you.

man , if you didn't have that thing up against your shoulder tight it looks like it would have broken your shoulder

the difference between the puff at the breechface and the blast at the nipple is super impressive. If those really are the two leak points, then the breech seal is actually pretty good now! It was also funny seeing how far back the hammer is thrown by the blast. If you put a semi auto trigger in there it would probably be self-cocking

I actually really like how that second lathe is set up as far as the tool holder goes

Why am I not surprised that Eric from IV8888 hunts with this....

I got 2 questions.Im no firearms gunsmith by trade but a simple machinist. When you bored out that sleeve why didnt you used shrink fit? is it something you dont do in a gun world because of heat or? How did you made a taper inside the barrel?Did you made a mandrel with a front guide of the same dimension as a bore with a long shank and put it in a lathe tailstock and used valve grinding compound? You could have rethread that nipple hole to a first common thread size ,it would make things easier.

Did you make the nipple/cone from steel or did you use beryllium copper ? From all the firing you guys did, was there any appreciable damage to the lip of the chamber/barrel breech interface?

That's cool that you made this for Eric. He looks very happy. I hope he does a video on this firearms

It's a breach loader fellows! Not a muzzle loader. Good job anvil on the sleeve! I do sharps breaches in a similar fashion but use a simple O ring for the Gass seal. And the Austrian type thread where known as shritt not metrics nor standard. Nice job on the repair I always said there is no such thing as a wall hanger! Lived once will live again😅

If people like the long segments will music only, I respect that. I will skip over any more than a couple of minutes without narration. I normally love the content but just in expressing my preference.

Editing of slow motion is glorious!

The up freq on the lathe due to the high speed goes pretty well with the background music.

I’m sure the rifle will appreciate the music from its homeland.

Mark's videos are an education. The music makes them a joy as well. Maybe the Goldberg Variations on the next one?

Now , you've hit the nail on the head . A machinist and a shooter, like myself , are a dime a dozen. However, owning the nice tools and using that tool to it's maximum capacity without a hitch 99.999%of the time; are two very different things. Just like he said, I don't only have to make a nipple for this gun; I have to make a replacement now, so that 50 years or even 100 or 175 years, when the next guy doesn't know how to do what I do can put a new nipple on this thing. Because, once that second nipple fizzles out that weapon is doomed to a scrap heap somewhere or a Museum if it's really lucky.

I'm so confused.... But.. the math DOES Add up.. why do u say that it doesn't???. Half of .245 Is EXACTLY... .1225... If u want to put a 005 gap.. it should be .122.25.. on both sides would be. .244.5 Can someone tell me what I'm missing

How do you keep the drills from going off center when drilling in the lathe?

Only one thing to say OUTSTANDING !!

Nice choice of music. Edit out the high speed voices thou. Also maybe try “Victory at Sea” next time.

So, you did convert that muzzle loader to full auto in the end, meow.

It doesn't surprise me at all that Eric owns that firearm. You did a great job of fixing that one up. Looks like a lot of gas comes back out of the cap nipple. So much that it blows the hammer back. I am not well versed in percussion cap firearms. Is this common or just a function of shooting such a large charge?

Stravinsky's Peer Gynt Suite #1! Thank you so much! Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and Rimsky-Korsakov are also much appreciated! BTW, R-K mentored Stravinsky; this is S's first major composition!

I yelled .245, guess camera man was noisy! Loved the stock repair, drilling music out me to sleep!

That's so frickin awesome. Your work is amazing

41:28 you can actually see the front barrel band moving (and is that a wood chip off to the side of it?). What a tremendous amount of force.

Is the projectile not a bullet? He said bullet and then corrected himself. What’s the difference?

I wonder if the inventer of these didn't get the idea for it watching a Swivel gun with the mugs that were preloaded. They had gas seals much like this on the individual mugs or canisters. I heard them called mugs. I think due to the canisters had a handle that made it look like a coffee mug.

Thanks Mark - much-appreceated sir.

I love the firearms that you restore. I have owned a very few of them. And worked on 3 of them. I would love to become a certified gunsmith but I'm 51 and doth think I could gain the experience that you have. Thank you for sharing your craft.

Kammerlader translate- chamber loader