In message <[email protected]>, Dave Ackrill writes: >If you wanted to cheese off the instructor, you went to the roll of thin >cotton tape, hanging on a roll on the wall, and pulled hard. The weight >of the tape coming off the roll was enough to spin the disk, thus >bringing more tape off, which was heavy enough to spin the roll some >more, so more tape came off, and so on.
This was a well know issue when manipulating the roll while splicing audiotapes. The funny thing was, 2" tapes are really strong. We tied an old studio worktape to the trailer-hook of a friends car when he got married. The tape unrolled flawlessly, the roll clattered wonderfully on the cobbles, and when they turned out of the drive-way it snagged a lamppost and brought the car to a halt until the groom went out and cut the tape :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
