Originally posted by mglavin
David
I agree with your analogy, but my point was the slop remains the same irregardless of the arm length. The relationship to arm length is the other story. The thing is were not talking about inches in our application. I suspect the differences are barely notable in our scenario.
Longer arms with the same physical slop at the clevis will result in less surface deflection - the important metric here. The physical amount of slop at the clevis is not nearly as important as the surface freedom of movement due to that slop.