Actually, one doesn't need a full-up lab, if you know what you want to measure and have some ingenuity. For instance, you could buy your piece of pipe, and test just that piece of pipe as a single in
If all you want to do is determine deflection under a static load, yep, that's all you need to do -- hang a weight on it. But that is the least of the issues. What is the composition of the steel? Ho
We shouldn't lump all pipe together. There is structural steel tube, which is really pipe and comes in both schedule 40 and 80. That is what I have been using It has far more "spring" and strength th
Speaking of DEFLECTION, how about a way to deflect this subject? How about BIRDS, owls, ospreys, wenches, winches, or mother-in-laws, in no particular order. Thanks,.... - M If all you want to do is
Meaning....that any further discussion will have zero value to the reflector at large? Or just to you? -Steve K8LX _______________________________________________ ____________________________________
Good points.. I would think that fatigue failure in a *steel* antenna mast application would be unusual. It's not like the classic railroad axle problem with millions of cycles. Maybe if you had an a