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Now, how do I get this **** dovetail to turn??!!
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<blockquote data-quote="3sixbits" data-source="post: 69003" data-attributes="member: 3661"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p>OK so I've often wondered. To me two bars with points touching don't mean they are in line with each other, it just means they are pointed in the same general direction. Don't it? I mean either flopping them around so two flat surfaces touch or using a long lapping bar I can understand but the points could be twisted off center and still touch. Right? Or am I missing something here? What they could do is show that one base is higher than the other, but once again couldn't that also be done with cut off round bars? I just don't get the points. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] You are right "What horse Sh_t" Years ago when I saw these alignment bars in the Brownells Catalog I knew at that point that Brownells sells fishing lures to wanabe's(aka suckers)For all you suckers that believe this crapola, find someone who knows how to use a mic and ask them to measure various brands of rifle scopes main tubes. They are not all the same main tube dimensions are they! Heck no! Do you think the people who make rings don't know this? They make them to fit the largest tubes. So now you take these pointy UNDERSIZE rods "slip" them into the rings and drag the front ring around to face and point at the rear, PLEASE, give me a break! There was only one Manufacture that took into account the different main tubes and Buhler is long gone. I can't but wonder at some of the crap I see in print!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="3sixbits, post: 69003, member: 3661"] [ QUOTE ] OK so I've often wondered. To me two bars with points touching don't mean they are in line with each other, it just means they are pointed in the same general direction. Don't it? I mean either flopping them around so two flat surfaces touch or using a long lapping bar I can understand but the points could be twisted off center and still touch. Right? Or am I missing something here? What they could do is show that one base is higher than the other, but once again couldn't that also be done with cut off round bars? I just don't get the points. [/ QUOTE ] You are right "What horse Sh_t" Years ago when I saw these alignment bars in the Brownells Catalog I knew at that point that Brownells sells fishing lures to wanabe's(aka suckers)For all you suckers that believe this crapola, find someone who knows how to use a mic and ask them to measure various brands of rifle scopes main tubes. They are not all the same main tube dimensions are they! Heck no! Do you think the people who make rings don't know this? They make them to fit the largest tubes. So now you take these pointy UNDERSIZE rods "slip" them into the rings and drag the front ring around to face and point at the rear, PLEASE, give me a break! There was only one Manufacture that took into account the different main tubes and Buhler is long gone. I can't but wonder at some of the crap I see in print! [/QUOTE]
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