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RE: Chute Forces (1)

To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>, "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>,
Subject: RE: Chute Forces (1)
From: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:07:28 -0500
I like the water shock best. But why do anything?
Skip




At 12:37 PM 7/12/04 -0400, Dave Dahlgren wrote:
>I came up with a bunch of contraptions menatlly though never built any of
>them.
>The two that made the most sense to me where a cylinder with water, a piston
>and a coil spring inside. As you pull on the end of the cylider it forces
>the water out into a tank and compresses the spring wound to have an
>increasing rate as it is compressed. as the load is reduced the cylinder
>goes back and water refills it from the tank. A great big shock.






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