> Consider a basic scale of moderately high tension. Say 40,000 lbs. > overall. With this string tension 1,000 lbs of string downforce equals > 2.5% of scale tension. That is quite a lot considering that most > companies are claiming string downforce more on the order of 0.5% to > 1.5% of string tension (which would be 200 to 600 lbs). I thought I was > setting my initial string downforce pretty high at around 1.0 to 1.5%. I > don't like thinking about what I'd be doing to a board loading it up to > 2.5%. I can't imagine it being happy enough at that level to want to > stay there. > > Del Loading from about 0.75° in the low bass (which in my opinion isn't out of line for an RC&S board with a decent back scale length and no cantilever), to 1.75° at the top will put you in the 800lb range at 40,000 lbs overall tension. A low bass of 0°, to a top end of 1° would get you a tad over 250 lbs, depending on tension distributions and such. I don't see a problem with the higher bearing figures with a rib scale designed to support it. Ron N
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