Presently I am working the NRA Whittington Center Adventure Camp as an assistant muzzle loading instructor. At the end of each range session, the kids are instructed in how to clean their muzzle loaders. The arms provided are either Thompson Center Hawkens or Lyman Great Plains. There are a few others (not sure which make) but they are the shorter ones (great for smaller kids).
We had a wedge that kept falling out of a Thompson Center. As a remedy, it was peened along its side. Another T/C's wedge fell out. It was caved in and could only be widened so much with what tools I had at hand. Used a file to increase the opening so as to allow the wedge to fit in. Yesterday a kid cracked a stock and that will need to be pinned and acra-glassed, but I don't have a drill, pins or acra-glass. Whittington's shotgun range manager has the acra-glass, but I'll have to get a drill from home.
We had a wedge that kept falling out of a Thompson Center. As a remedy, it was peened along its side. Another T/C's wedge fell out. It was caved in and could only be widened so much with what tools I had at hand. Used a file to increase the opening so as to allow the wedge to fit in. Yesterday a kid cracked a stock and that will need to be pinned and acra-glassed, but I don't have a drill, pins or acra-glass. Whittington's shotgun range manager has the acra-glass, but I'll have to get a drill from home.