fireback

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I realize this would significantly reduce the gizmoquotient, but wouldn't it be more efficient just to mount the bookcase or false fireback on a pivoting axis?

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  1. The back wall of a furnace or fire-place.
  2. A macartney or fire-backed pheasant, of the genus Euplocamus, as E. ignitus.

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