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18 July 2020, 16:57
Rusty
Watertable
I came across a copy of a letter I had mailed to Geoffery Boothroyd, back in Oct. 2001.
He passed away before I could get an answer.

I had asked him for a historical reference as to why that part of a standing breech double rifle or shotgun is called the Watertable .
Can anyone here have knowledge as to why?
As always thank you for your time and information.


Rusty
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18 July 2020, 19:56
Huvius
I believe that it is called the "water table" because it is the flat surface of the action from which all other surface angles are based.
I've read that pre-computer mechanical drawings all had a "water table", that is, a flat level line, which was used for such a reference plane.
19 July 2020, 00:35
MacD37
quote:
Originally posted by Huvius:
I believe that it is called the "water table" because it is the flat surface of the action from which all other surface angles are based.
I've read that pre-computer mechanical drawings all had a "water table", that is, a flat level line, which was used for such a reference plane.


That is also my understanding of the term! Thanks for the post Rusty.
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19 July 2020, 16:16
Rusty
Thank you, gentlemen. That a great explanation.


Rusty
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"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”