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RE: harness bar legality in stock?

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Subject: RE: harness bar legality in stock?
From: Larry Joffe <spdrcr5@bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:40:48 -0500
Art:

What are you talking about?  You know exactly where to get a harness bar for
your TT.  I designed one and had it fabricated!  You have seen me use it in
my TT.  When I mentioned it to you, you were not interested in it.

If you want the information to get one, contact Stable Energies at their
website http://www.stableenergies.com

Larry Joffe
SM #27/127
2000 Audi TT Quattro

http://larrytt.dnsalias.org

larry@auditt.org



--> "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com> wrote:
--> >
--> >Even a telescoping bar would provide some support if you wanna
--> >take it far enough.
-->
--> This is one area where I'm familiar with the rule from it's
--> inception in 1997 through today.  The harness bar, as originally
--> described by Per Schroeder, was constructed of two pieces of
--> different-sized tubing, one inside the other.  When mounted,
--> they could freely slide in and out of each other.  That's the
--> telescope part.  This made them useless as a stress member,
--> unless you drilled through and put a bolt in to fasten the two
--> pieces together.  (We'll ignore the miniscule possibility that
--> the two pieces might be constructed with such close tolerances
--> that they would lock together by friction under a twisting
--> motion.)
-->
--> My interpretation of the rule change is that the SEB wants
--> to allow alternate means of constructing a harness bar that
--> doesn't make it a stress member.  For example, maybe a ball
--> joint or hinges on the ends might accomplish the same thing
--> while utilizing one piece of continuous tubing instead of
--> two shorter pieces stuck together.  They don't want to stifle
--> creativity, while at the same time leaving in the gospel
--> words "...as long as it serves no other purpose....."
-->
--> -Arthur ("Can't make a Schroeder bar work in the submarine"
--> edition.)
-->
--> _________________________________________________________________
-->

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