[WWI] Need off topic help from old kit collectors/hoarders

[Joel Christy]

Hi Ernie,
   
  I believe Buz is correct. The Pyro kits came with little wire springs that attached to pegs on the moving parts. They would have been made out of a piano type wire. I've included a sketch as I remember them and a set of Pyro dueling pistols I made a few years ago. However I didn't make them workable nor did I keep the instructions. I had the Dutch pistol on my wall  as a kid and I saw the real thing in some museum in London but I can't remember where; it was years ago.....
   
  Cheer,
   
  Joel

pezo8481 at bellsouth.net wrote:
  Ernie,

I would love to be able to help you. Back in 1976 while I was stationed in Pensacola, Florida I bought the "old" PYRO kit of the NAVY Colt. I seemed to remember that the kit came with a spring that was coiled on each end so you could link the trigger to the hammer at the same time rotate the cylinder. I used to keep the instruction sheets to all my models, but in this case that one is long gone. Sorry! I hope you can get some answers to your question.

Buz
-------------- Original message from ernest thomas : -------------- 

Hi All,
I'm currently cleaning up the parts for the Linberg re-issue of the old Life-Like/Pyro Dutch Flintlock Pistol(the one with the man's head on the stock butt). Building it for Henry 'Bleedding Spleen', Terror of the Bayous. Looking at the parts, particularly how the trigger and flint lock go together, I can tell that this was originally designed to be a working cocking/fireing mechanism. But the Lindberg instruction sheet doesn't say anything about how a rubberband should be installed to make it work. The sheet also omits a few parts that would be invloved in that assembly, even thought the parts are in the box. I think I can see how a rubberband would be installed, and left to my own devices could probably figure out the extra parts. But it would be a lot easier if some kind soul had the original instruction sheet from the old Life-Like/Pyro release of this kit and would be kind enough to make me a copy. 
Anybody got this old relic in their stash, or know of a link to a site where I might be able to view this original sheet? 
tia. 
E.
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