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rock-ola barrel band. (on IBM) |
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mikeurbas
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Posted: Mar 12 2019 at 12:50pm |
does anyone know why my IBM carbine would have a ROCK-OLA barrel band ?
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jackp1028
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How is your barrel band marked? Can you post a picture?
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JackP
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Why Carbines?
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Is it one with the / mark? |
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mikeurbas
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like this \ that is the only mark, and according to the book war baby, if it was an ibm it would have 2 \\ on it . rockola only has 1 \
mark looks like \ |
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jackp1028
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Mike, you need WB3 (pg. 1205). \ and / was added for IBM.
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JackP
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On this sight under the Newsworthy items down at the bottom of page is an IBM featured carbine and in the pics it shows the front barrel band that is on this carbine. You might compare to yours.
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New2brass
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CCNL 329-4 shows late IBM use of \, /, // bands
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mikeurbas
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so my \ is correct for ibm? thanks for the help !! p.s, is war babby 3 worth the investment, if i have the first 2 books?
thats exactly how my band looks ! |
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New2brass
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War baby 3 has corrections to one and two as well as an index of all 3 volumes.
Top that with tons of additional information |
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