Re: Tubular stiffness

Bob Madden (madden@netcom.com)
Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:46:30 -0700 (PDT)

Great! Bob Paff has it on the nose. Now, what does this mean to torsional flexture and dampening time? The stiffer it is, the higher the oscillating frequency, right? It is a mass-spring rate solution. So drilling or hollowing out small diameter shafts may be counter productive. It is important on the OTA, heh-heh, or you can't see through it! Is all this logic correct? Hummm, I wonder?

Ok robertf, this is _FRIENDLY_ Bob

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