Dru,<div>
</div><div>Not to discourage you or kibitz your ideas here, but......</div><div>That brass tube idea may be alittle hollow (sorry about the pun) :~) </div><div>Ya'see, adding 'brass tubing' toward the top of the strut would probably prove to be the weakest point in the works.</div><div>It's a matter of leverage... You've got all that heavy spring-steel wire down below taking the jolt, transferring that the forces to a hollow tube.</div><div>And,,,,, attaching a 'set-screw' to the tubing would possibly make the tubing even weaker..... IMHO.</div><div>
</div><div>Before you dive into this,,, do some smack tests on the bench first.... okay?</div><div>
</div><div>(For what it's worth)</div><div>
</div><div>Do you have any other tubing around alittle stronger than Brass; say Stainless Steel maybe?</div><div>
</div><div>I'm thinking about doing something relatively similar, but only with ThickWall CF-Tubing, epoxied over the SpringSteel wires.</div><div>(This is because I don't have any SS-Tubing, much less any good way to afix it to the steel strut wires)</div><div>
</div><div>Hope This Helps</div><div>
</div><div>~Ramius~</div><div>
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