Alan
David was tossing an idea around and I thought it was open for discussion,that is what these forums are for.
You seem to be defending the idea as if it were your baby.
It comes across that you are mocking me.
You look like a dick head
I could defend all off your comments and give tech reasons but I would not give it the time of day know.
Jim
I have no idea where that's coming from. I'm explaining my understanding of the technical situation according to my training and in a writing style you would find in any technical article or book. There are no personal remarks in my posting, and no criticism of you or anything you said.
If you'd like to point to a specific piece of text and explain precisely how it's offensive I'll be glad to listen.
You are the first to do any namecalling.
You've said some things that are simply inconsistent with basic mechanical engineering, and you've stated them as fact. I'm just trying to establish the truth in the context of a rather simple mechanical system about which there are
no mysteries using physics that have been know for hundreds of years. Professional engineers do this all day every day; there is nothing out of the ordinary with David's concept. I'm not possessive of anything but the truth; the technical truth IS my and other people's baby. That's the only reason I participate in this forum at all.
I think it's bad for the forum, as a body of technical knowledge, to have simple mechanical devices portrayed as mysterious and debatable when in fact they are not; that just intimidates people from relying on their education and reasoning power to create these things for themselves. This is science, not art.
Please feel free to explain your understanding of the mechanical system in precise technical terms like I have, and like David and others continue to do in this thread, and we can have a perfectly rational discussion.