Re: [ATM] Active damping (and archery)

[Mike Lockwood <melockwo@uiuc.edu>]

Hi,

Joe wrote:
> The Amateurs tried the "Foam" idea, and it diddn't work,, unless you can 
> get it to be loose in the tubes.  The whole dampening thing works 
> because it's loose.

Uh, we tried the foam idea on the inside of our ~7' long, 1.5" 
diameter aluminum truss poles on our 30" F/3.8.

It cured our truss pole vibration problems.  The key is to do it in 
stages, so that the whole tube gets filled.

	Mike Lockwood

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