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You've got some great freebies on your page. I just wanted to thank you for them. Thou I might have by email already. Super stuff.

Awesome! Now that's my idea of a nice rack!

Thanks Ed! Fabulous work, and FREE too! - I think my budget can "stretch" to that! (groan!) ;-) Dave :-)

........your welcome guyz, don't hurt yourselves......

Ed, How much weight can your device support? I worry about the lack of cross-bracing should it be necessary to restrain an unwilling subject. Does it require maintence between each use (like a harp needs constant tuning) or is servicing something which can be contracted out on a timely basis? Do the ropes need replacement with each use, or are frayed ends part of expected operations? Do I need to keep a psychiatrist on staff to deal with separation anxiety? Carolly

nu-be, No reason to be scared until I start taking the measure of my fellow members here! Of course, some have volunteered their height, weight, age, and remaining number of hairs on their heads, but unless I was unspeakably lazy I wouldn't start with them. Dessert should be savored. ;^) Carolly

Yes there are so many deserving potential clients out there. Why waste it on Posers - unless they are continously resentful flamers who don't bother to read threads before posting, always take an argumentitive point of view, and are largely ignorant of the sensibilities or viewpoints of others. I too want it to be able to support a 300 pounder, though. You never know . . . hauksdottir: Are you keeping track of vital statistics ? I'll have to remember not to tell you that I'm an old young tall short skinny fat man with blue brown green eyes and a long bearded clean shaven face with long short hair, really large ears, and a long catlike tail.Did I mention the antenna? - oops I talk too much(all in good fun I hope). Ed: almost forgot the point of the thread - Thanks, I needed something like that.

Bikermouse, By the time Ed has modified a pair of thumbscrews to work on antennae, you'd be long gone. 300 pounds is a minimum. My physical therapist said something about the weight of the patient plus any force being applied. We also have to contend with the upward force at each end under the manacles. Sigh, there was a time when I could have calculated that. No, no, don't get excited! Not torture machines (sheesh) just windload and deadload on curtainwall. Hmm... maybe I shouldn't mention deadload. Carolly, keeping an eye on the exit

Bikermice are nothing if not quick. besides we all study the martial art of "Talk Fu" and are all graduates of "The Famous Adventurer's Correspondance School for Heros". gone indeed(he-he.) Force = mass times acceleration . ? G2M1 = G2M2 ? anyrate perhaps a rating of 2000 lbs/ inch^2 is too much to ask from mere wood. perhaps using T1 titanium steel and an arc welder, the device might work as planned. thumbscrews? ouch !!

Young Miss Gentilischi survived thumbscrews and still managed to outpaint most of the men... you'll do just fine! I do hope that you wouldn't feel insulted if I let drop that you are far, far down on my list of people who need to get straightened out? Hmmm... Well-seasoned wood might be better than metal since it has more flexibility and less fragility. You don't hear of wood buildings collapsing due to "fatigue". Damn! The last time I had my eyes in that engineering book was '81? '82? I just can't remember this stuff. Strength of materials. Moments of inertia. I used to do DIE drawings for custom extrusions... but if you don't use those formulas for 20 years, they blow away like old flypaper. And, somewhere, a modeler is staring at this thread with the same horror felt by Monsieur le Guillotine. The thought of die drawings in the wrong hands causes small beads of perspiration to form on his upper lip. Carolly

talk fu saying: "the teeth are hard and fall out, the tongue is soft and remains." recipe - don't try at home : 1) take old broom handle. 2) take closed fist. 3) step three ommitted as it is ancient secret.(hopefully not knowing this step keep people from trying at home.) 4) put broom handle between 2 chairs. 5) beihg careful not to hurt youself, smash down on broom handle with closed fist. 6) do same with iron bar of same diameter and length. which one breaks ? hauksdottir: Please tell us the story of M.Guillotine. I dont know that one.

bikermouse, He invented it as a humane and quick way to execute criminals. Strangulation by hanging often took a while, which could be considered torture. They didn't have electricity back then, and you know how inaccurate their guns were. Even the typical beheading of having a guy whack at the neck with an axe wasn't the most painless way around. He was of course horrified when thousands of non-criminals were beheaded on rumor and say-so. IIRC he was, too. Carolly

Ah thanks, kind of like Winchester remorsed making his rifles.

Well, we have to remember that it isn't the tool, but the use to which it is put, that should elicit praise or blame. A tool just "is". Whenever something destructive gets invented, people will point and say "if so-and-so had never lived, we wouldn't be threatened by [name your poison]!" Nonsense! Ideas come to fruition when the time and circumstances are right for them to blossom... and these are vast social as well as environmental circumstances. How many people invented calculus at the same time? 3. Why? Because the building blocks were there, and the time to assemble them was right. Excuse me, I need to find some cold dark matter. They promised 90s and thunderstorms for the convention this week. The scientists are looking in the reaches of space. They'd have more luck searching the basements of Ohio in the summertime! Carolly

At least it would be in their grasp in Ohio. They better start building those FTL ships pretty fast, eh? of course according to one theory we're all standing on "dark matter". another provides that it is some exotic particle of unknown nature. And come to think of it aren't they searching for dark matter in mining caves, filled with heavy water. or is that neutrino bombardment? I love thunderstorms - and 90's would be cool compared to here. Sounds like fun to me. Wish I were going.

Have to put Winchester Mystery House on my list of places I should've visited but didn't. Along with Hearst Castle and the San Diego Zoo.