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Old 3rd February 2011, 06:37 PM   #1
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From the pictures it looks like sand; I figure you've ruled that out though .

What happens when you wet the stuff ?
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Old 3rd February 2011, 06:48 PM   #2
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I don't think it's sand; if it is, it's both extraordinarily fine and extremely compacted where it's in the barrel. On the other hand, when moistened, it seems to coagulate very rapidly - just like sand, but also like most other powders I've come across. Doesn't appear especially hydrophobic, in other words, but I can't tell if it's any more hygroscopic than sand. See attached picture, taken fresh in the cardboard packaging roll-cum-petri dish
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Old 4th February 2011, 05:05 PM   #3
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The gun with bone inlay is modern work from Morocco, seen them a lot.
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Old 7th February 2011, 06:23 PM   #4
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Finally tried the Coke trick, and it didn't make much impression. It sat down the barrel for seventeen hours (!) and in the end, the obstruction remains as hard as ever. I'm starting to wonder if it's time to admit defeat and get the thing to a gunsmith, though that would feel like a defeat.

OTOH, I could simply dry the barrel out as far as possible and then go back to trying to break it up. I think exposure to any sort of moisture is encouraging that powdery stuff to congeal into a hard-to-break mass; perhaps removing as much moisture as I can would help reduce it to its more powdery form.

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