At 04:32 PM 12/26/02 -0500, Al Taylor wrote:
I'm impressed. I have no clue if you answered my question, but I was impressed. John, you still there? ;-)OK, John and Alan and I all said, counterintuitive as it may seem, yes it bends exactly the same TOWARD and AWAY FROM the spine, as long as it's in the same plane.
Al
You could weld a small steel rod to the shaft, to give it as stiff a spine as you want. It will still have exactly the same stiffness in BOTH DIRECTIONS in the same plane.
Twirling it in a spine finder might or might not say that. But measuring the REAL stiffness will. I have posted here how to measure true stiffness, several times over the past week.
Hope this answers it.
DaveT
