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FITTER, VENTILATED RIB

Specialty Definition: FITTER, VENTILATED RIB

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Mounts and aligns ventilated (elevated) ribs to shotgun barrels to facilitate aiming: Selects and positions ribs to dovetailed posts on top of gun barrel. Mounts rib to barrel by dovetailing each rib slot and barrel post along barrel. Locks barrel in vise and measures height of rib at breech end, using pin gauge, to determine amount rear end post must be reduced to lower rib to specified height. Hammers and files post and squeezes rib slot, using handtools and fixtures, to fit rib to post at specified height. Files and fits each rib slot to each post along barrel to align and level rib. Stamps identifying data on rib and barrel, using punches and hammer. Operates bench drill press to drill holes in barrel for retaining pins and sighting beads. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FITTER, VENTILATED RIB


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 54 54 45 52 2C      56 45 4E 54 49 4C 41 54 45 44      52 49 42

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01010110 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001100 01000001 01010100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010010 01001001 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#86 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#82 &#73 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0054 0054 0045 0052 002C      0056 0045 004E 0054 0049 004C 0041 0054 0045 0044      0052 0049 0042

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

404354543952142563948544346355439382524336

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