Seriously Neal. Was the boom bent, as it appears to be in your pic, when
you added your pipe? Couldn't you have straightened it out? Or did it bend
afterwards.

Scotty, always looking for a cheap fix

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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Give it up Sidney - I respect you for your vast engineering knowledge
but these weenies are so uneducated and simple-minded that they
can't honestly be expected to under stand systems involving physical
forces they cannot see, let alone comprehend.

S.Simon - intellectuals approve


"Sidney Greenstreet" wrote in message
nk.net...
Baaa!

You sailors with your cheap extruded aluminum spars, squeezed from a
cheap
aluminum extrusion die!!!

Cheap, cheap, cheap! And not efficient at all!

The finest spars, aside from composites, is Simple Simon's double butted
pre
stressed boom! Yes, that's right! The finest steel bike frames are
made
from double or even triple butted tubing. The knowing Captain has
himself,
with his very own hands, constructed a double butted boom. It's tubing
wall
is thicker in the middle rather than on the ends! It's pre stressed to
overcome tensile loading! Only a genius could design such technology.

It's a shame that the good Captain is too modest to tell you these
things
himself. It's a worse shame that you all are too ignorant to know it in
the
first place. But the worse shame is the lack of respect you all have for
the
good, noble Captain! Can't you all appreciate the great things in
life?!?!