Yep, Stiction Friction. Learned about it back in early 60's when we had to 
send a "dither" signals to gyros to overcome Stiction Friction and improve 
accuracy (missile program). What's the old saying, things at rest tend to 
stay at rest and things in motion like to keep moving or something like that 
;-)
Ron W8RJL
 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Harmon" <k6uj@pacbell.net>
To: "towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: FW: Fwd: Worm Gears
 
Roger,
I have an addition we learned from Rick, N6RK in his earlier post.
STICTION   Another term for static friction
 (I thought Rick was being humorous, but I looked it up and it is defined 
as :
"Stiction is the static friction that needs to be overcome to enable 
relative motion of stationary objects in contact." )
Rick,   I will never doubt your stuff again hihihihi
73,
Bob
K6UJ
 On Jul 16, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Roger D Johnson <n1rj@roadrunner.com> 
wrote:
 BRAKE: A device for slowing or stopping a vehicle or other moving 
mechanism by the
              absorption or transfer of the energy of momentum, usually 
by means of friction.
 BREAK: To smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces 
or fragments
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