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Originally Posted by bmitchell82
Okay. everybody is going on about the rat cage again......... Miss understanding and lack of knowledge aparently leads to gospil and arm chair experts or arm chair engineers . Look at the individual parts.
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We are looking at the individual parts, and you ought to step back and see how those accusations apply to you.
And I hate to say it...
...But you are indeed wrong. The big issue with these setups is not deflection but vibration. These Rube Goldberg "rat cages" totally undermine all that's good about a well engineered pier.
The thing of it is that just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right, and everyone is doing it because everyone else is doing it, and they're all doing it because some armchair engineers are telling them it's the right thing to do, when in fact it is the wrong thing to be doing.