Thanks Arto and Jon, The number Arto gave is very close to the number I had. It just seemed pretty dense but I guess that's the idea. It will mean some pretty thin strings to keep the tension from getting too high. Arto, (I wish I knew any other language as well as you do English.) What I mean by tensile strength is the breaking strength or the maximum amount of tension the string can support before it breaks. As Jon said, this would be in weight per square measure. (As in grams per square millimeter.) I'm still checking on this. If I get an answer, I'll post it. Craig
Arto Wikla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Craig, > Does anybody have the mass and tensile strength values for carbon > fiber strings. (Saverez strings claim not to be carbon fiber so those > numbers won't necessarily work.) Thanks, I use 1791 Kg/m³ for "carbon" (high density hydrocarbon polymer?) strings in my calculator. Seems to work well. And if you do not know the material and its density, but you have the string, you may measure its diameter, length and weight, and then use my "sub-calculator" , see the link Density in the calculator: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Calcs/wwwscalc.html Arto PS I hope I understood right the terms "mass and tensile strength value", my English is not so very good... --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
