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| (...) is (...) This is one of the disabled cannons - they can be modified to shoot with the addition of a spring (some disassembly required). They were later replaced by the one-piece non-firing cannon. Bruce (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| What kind of spring is used? All this time, I thought just flicking the black piece of the cannon made it fire! Scott (...) (24 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Nope, there's a spring inside. Someone here did modify non-shooting cannon (the disabled variety, not the one-piece mould variety, naturally) to fire with a cut-down spring from a retractible ball-point pen. It's roughly the same diameter. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) black (...) I have a disabled one. Can you give me more details on how to fix it? (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) I've never had to 'undisable' one myself, so I really can't, but if you do a search through .pirates you should be able to find the old thread which tells you how. best LFB (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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