Hi Sabrina,
I am not willing to play the game your way, but I can supply a
slightly different point of view that might be helpful.
The question I can answer, sort of, is how much cable tension can you
generate by turning the turnbuckle by hand. The answer is something
around 25 pounds of tension. You can get this through a long
tortuous set of calculations on the cable and thread along with the
diameter of the turnbuckle barrel, or you can measure the tension
achieved by hand after the new tensiometer arrives from Aircraft
Spruce. Guess which method I used . . .
Paul
XL getting close
At 09:34 AM 11/30/2008, you wrote:
>Thanks guys--your explanation seems so obvious, sorry I missed it,
>it must be all the turkey (tryptophan.)
>
>So it is Ron's turn :o)
>
>It seems my guess as to tension change is too great.
>
>Any others willing to post before Ron does his experiment?
>
>The winner gets a Christmas card containing an invite to the launch
>of N5887Q in June of 2018 (fall back dates 2020 & 2035.)
>
>Ron gets an invite for just doing the experiment.
