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| Subject: | [TowerTalk] Winch Swap |
| From: | "Wilson" <infomet@embarqmail.com> |
| Reply-to: | Wilson <infomet@embarqmail.com> |
| Date: | Thu, 4 Jun 2015 23:23:42 -0400 |
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Think of tying up a ship with line around a bollard or pulling a line by winching on a cathead (windlass). Tension is exponential function of the wrap angle. You have several thousand degrees of wrap...lots of holding power! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstan_equation WL _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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