Re: [ATM] wire spiders

[Nils Olof Carlin <nilsolof.carlin@telia.com>]

Alan,

I'm not sure how your concept is from the verbal description, but have 
you considered Mel Bartels' wire spider concept?:

http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/tm/trilateral/trilateral.html


>>>The advantages are that the wire shouldn't move at all (durring 
columation), and should have absolutely no spikes around stars.  We 
will see if it is even manufacturable.

To me, Mel's seems the simplest design to implement, or even possible 
considering the stability requirements. It is not possible to avoid 
spikes altogether as long as the wires are straight - unless you plan 
to spread them out (thick) by curving the vanes - thereby giving up the 
desirable features (such as stability) of a wire (or any other) spider. 
I haven't made any wire spiders myself, but it seems the way to go to 
minimize total spider diffraction.

Nils Olof


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