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Posted: 8/1/2006 4:17:54 PM EDT

I really want to break into this, and I've had NO success.

Posted: 8/1/2006 4:34:51 PM EDT

[#1]

I couldn't do it either. Here's a sorry example of my rite'n.

Are you thinking of the civilian Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) developed by M. Vervier?

This sporting gun is gas operated with a rotating bolt head that engages the shoulders of the barrel...sorta like the M16. And like the M16, the BAR's bolt head is attached to a carrier. Unlike the M16 (which is gas impingement operated as opposed to the gas operation of the BAR), the BAR's carrier rides on two parallel action bars which are attached to an intertia piece found underneath the barrel.

Upon firing, gases enter the gas port, filling the gas cylinder. Pressure drives the gas piston against the intertia piece which begins travelling rearward. This compresses the action spring and causes the action bars to travel rearward along the action bar (for want of a better term) path in the receiver. Because the bolt carrier is attached to the action bars, the bolt carrier also travels rearward and in doing so, cams the bolt, unlocking the bolt's multiple heads from the shoulders of the barrel.

As the bolt travels rearward, the extractor pulls the spent case from the chamber. Pressure acting on the base of the case from the ejector ejects the case from the ejection port. The bolt's rearward travel also causes the hammer to rotate back past the cocked position.

Now, pressure from the compressed action spring forces the inertia piece forward. This causes the action bars to begin their forward movement and with it, the bolt carrier assembly.

As the bolt travels forward, the hammer follows until it is arrested by the sear. Pressure from the magazine spring forces the magazine follower up and pushes a cartridge into the feed lips of the magazine. (Funny, but doesn't the rearward travel of the bolt actually pushes the cartridges into the magazine ever so slightly?) The bolt strips the awaiting cartridge from the magazine. As the cartridge rides up and along the breech face of the bolt, it slides beneath the extractor.

The bolt head then reengages the shoulders and the bolt's camming action locks the action; completing the chambering process and the firing cycle.

It is quite unlike the fixed stock FN-FAL or the M1918 BAR or M-16/AR-15 where there is a recoil spring or buffer in the stock.
That said and done, I guess the commercial BAR can be made into a bull pup hunting rifle.

My apologies if there's a mistake on the technical details. I don't have a BAR on hand to examine and I'm not an engineer and corrections are gratefully accepted.

Posted: 8/1/2006 4:56:54 PM EDT

[#2]

Just think boring, no flare, no imagination and keep a linear train of thought. Like an outline and bullet everything step by step. Imagine following the instructions below while disarming a bomb:

Cut the the red wire, after the blue one. But first turn the yellow switch. This is the proper way do disarm the Gr21 device. Then you gotta clap your hands, which I know is kinda weird, but it shows that you have your hands empty to the people around you.

The following is much more clear where what you're doing is stated first and each step is identified and each process is stated in full.

Disarming the Gr21 device is done by first turning the yellow switch. Then cut the blue wire followed by cutting the red wire. Once the two wires are cut, clap your hands to signify that you are complete and you are no longer handeling the Gr21 device.

Posted: 8/1/2006 7:04:10 PM EDT

[#3]

I know HOW to do it

I'm just having trouble getting hired for that first gig so I can SHOW someone I can do it.

Posted: 8/1/2006 7:06:14 PM EDT

[#4]

Is there a market for technical writers?

Posted: 8/1/2006 7:12:19 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
I really want to break into this, and I've had NO success.

For computer software? What field?

Posted: 8/1/2006 7:15:19 PM EDT

[#6]

No idea about technical writing, but I make stupid good money writing papers for my fellow college students

Posted: 8/1/2006 7:15:38 PM EDT

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Is there a market for technical writers?

HUGE market in the pharma industry, which is really big where I live. $30/hr or more for contract writers.

Posted: 8/1/2006 7:21:33 PM EDT

[#8]

talking people through taking thier pills?

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Quoted:
Is there a market for technical writers?

HUGE market in the pharma industry, which is really big where I live. $30/hr or more for contract writers.

Posted: 8/1/2006 7:22:13 PM EDT

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talking people through taking thier pills?

Quoted:

Quoted:
Is there a market for technical writers?

HUGE market in the pharma industry, which is really big where I live. $30/hr or more for contract writers.

Research, dude.

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