There seems to be something screwy with Mr. Kluznick's logic.
Under the paragraph Line Size he states he wants four feet of stretch but will have to add more snubbers to get the desired SWL. However, adding snubbers will decrease the stretch as the load will then be spread over more snubbers. If one has 4 feet of stretch with on line then adding another of the same size will produce two feet of stretch (at the same load) since each line now has half the original load. A SWL of 15% of the ultimate breaking strength seems unrealistically low to me (I smell the company lawyers at work here). I would choose the line to give the stretch I want and ignore the stated 15% SWL in favor of, say, 50% of ultimate. For those "very conservative" folks one could rig a second snubber with a higher breaking strength and rig it slack to come into load when the first one stretches to the limit one desires. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > I found this page while looking for something else. The gentleman deal > with snubbers in a very detailed manner. > > http://kluznick.com/files/Snubber_Design.doc > > Philip > -- > Philip Lange AE4OV > USSV ORYOKI > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
