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Old 11-24-2014, 04:44 PM
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alex5
 
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Wow ,a lot of minute work there.Great stuff.Ok,now a kind of WTH question.Why is there so much space between the the chine bracket and the pin bracket?...is it play for some unknown reason...I can see it in the drawings...but ,it doesnt make much sense,structurally.The Beaver has a similar ,But different,pinning approach,where the Upper pivot is a substantial rod,through bracket,and, where the chine bracket is,in the Cat,another horizontal pn and bracket,instead of the vertical clevis,into a vertical hole.It is funny how different designers tackle the same problems differently.Alex
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