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Posted: 12/21/2006 1:21:06 PM EDT

Why is the Delta ring called the Delta ring?

Posted: 12/21/2006 1:22:48 PM EDT

[#1]

because originally it was in the shape of a triangle?

Posted: 12/21/2006 1:27:10 PM EDT

[#2]

It was used in the Mekong DELTA area?

Posted: 12/21/2006 1:51:36 PM EDT

[#3]

Side profile looks like a D?

Posted: 12/21/2006 1:56:02 PM EDT

[#4]

I don't know.

Originally they were not tapered, so it can't be the shape.

Delta is Army phonetic for D, so it may be something that starts with D.

Posted: 12/21/2006 1:59:17 PM EDT

[#5]

When they aren't tapered, they were/are called slip rings, correct?

Posted: 12/21/2006 1:59:36 PM EDT

[#6]

Because calling it a…….

Alpha ring

Bravo ring

Charlie ring, all sounded stupid.

Delta ring sounds more tacticool!

Posted: 12/21/2006 6:02:02 PM EDT

[#7]

How many rings from either end are there in an AR

From the stock

Gas rings x3-A,B & C?

then the delta ring-Delta?

I have NO idea either but thats the best I can think of, though I have no Idea why they would be called anything else besides their technical name

Posted: 12/21/2006 6:05:06 PM EDT

[#8]

My guess is because the delta ring is tapered into a somewhat triangular shape like a delta as opposed to the original "slip ring".

Plus "delta" sounds hella more cool and "operator"-like than "tapered".

Posted: 12/21/2006 6:05:34 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
because originally it was in the shape of a triangle?

that was my guess

Posted: 12/21/2006 6:52:47 PM EDT

[#10]

Because they had changed it. 'Delta' = change

Posted: 12/21/2006 9:32:11 PM EDT

[#11]

All of you are way off the mark... it is because this guy named it:

Posted: 12/21/2006 9:44:14 PM EDT

[#12]

Greek delta...

Hmmm...kinda looks like the 1st generation handguard to me!

Posted: 12/21/2006 9:49:55 PM EDT

[#13]

D as in Detention ring?

Posted: 12/21/2006 10:40:47 PM EDT

[#14]

I dont know, but id like to find out.....

Posted: 12/22/2006 2:58:47 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I dont know, but id like to find out.....

I though maybe someone would know, lets keep making WAGs and SWAGs...Hmmm

Posted: 12/22/2006 3:36:22 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Greek delta...

www.decodeunicode.org/data/glyph/196x196/0394.gif

Hmmm...kinda looks like the 1st generation handguard to me!

Dingdingding..Winner.Imagine that delta cut off halfway up, then look at a delta ring from the side..........
..______
/_______\

Posted: 12/22/2006 4:23:54 PM EDT

[#17]

Because the first guy that had one on his M16 that jammed all the time, threw it in the Delta.

Posted: 12/22/2006 4:35:57 PM EDT

[#18]

Main Entry: 1del·ta
Pronunciation: 'del-t&
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English deltha, from Greek delta, of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew dAleth daleth
1 : the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet -- see ALPHABET table
2 : something shaped like a capital Greek delta; especially : the alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
3 : an increment of a variable -- symbol Δ
4 : DELTA WAVE

#2: The ~~alluvial~~ ALUMINUM deposit at the mouth of a ~~river~~HANDGUARD.

Delta-ring
In mathematics, a nonempty collection of sets is called a δ-ring (pronounced delta-ring) if it is closed under union, relative complementation, and countable intersection:

Relative to the math term possibly?

Posted: 12/22/2006 4:36:14 PM EDT

[#19]

Some of you crack me up. The AR was designed long before anyone knew what "tacticool" or "hella cool" meant. Or "hella" anything for that matter.

Posted: 12/22/2006 4:39:45 PM EDT

[#20]

Some of you crack me up. The AR was designed long before anyone knew what "tacticool" or "hella cool" meant. Or "hella" anything for that matter.

Krummlauf attachment on an StG44, the original "tacticool" assault rifle.

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