Re: [ATM] Aluminium or stainless steel?

["David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>]

Pardon me,

I don't mean to step on any toes, but why not design the structure according
to tried and true methods of engineering? What's the matter with old ideas?
The wheel is an old idea, it works pretty good.

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Woods" <garygarlic@earthlink.net>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Aluminium or stainless steel?


> On Mon, 9 May 2005 18:43:11 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>
> >Suppose the tubing is made of gum rubber.  I stuff it with a
> >tight-fitting rod of steel.  Doesn't it become stiffer?
>
> And two African swallows could probably carry a coconut between them on a
> piece of string.  OK, so the statement was presuming you made the strut of
> something reasonably strong in the first case, in which case the
statements
> made apply.
>
>
>
>
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