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Old 15-11-2011, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by clive milne View Post
On the subject of wire spiders, they can be made to be sufficiently rigid if you apply the offset design which in effect translates the forces into 1st order instead of second order... a very important engineering principle.
Exactly.
It's the angle of the wires that hold the secondary rock solidly in place. Mine is not under much tension at all, but yes it's a common belief that the tension is what keeps a wire spider in place.
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