In defense of TAR (Was S&S retrofit rails ?)

[Jon Page]

picky, picky 

:-)

A lock washer would help retain pressure or a spring washer like
those old K&B hammer flange screw washers.

Jon

PS Therre were times when I receive two posts but it has noit happened 
this week.


At 10:53 AM 9/13/98 EDT, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 9/13/98 9:32:42 AM, jpage@capecod.net wrote:
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><<There, I've just come up with two ways to secure the rail.>>
>Well yeah you did that......... buuuut only at the point of the pin. this
>doesn't address the expansion and contraction of the wooden rails.  The
>Delignit rails probably would cure this but then Delignit is no longer really
>wood, is it? :-)
>  Further as the bolts holding the rail loosen their hold due to this
>expansion and contraction the very flexibilty you are railing against begins
>to get worse and worse as further E/C loosening happens.
>
>  Action stack frames w/rails 'could be' cast of kevlar thus removing 'all
>possibilities' of unwanted movement............perhaps we could get Kelly
>Johnson and the "Skunk Works" to work on this for us at "area 51" :-)
>
>BTW I had someone say they were getting two copies of my posts, list and
>personal.  Is anyone else having this happen with my posts??
>Jim Bryant (FL)
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