"Steve B" wrote:

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My royalty department attorneys will be in touch.

I'll give 'em 1/2 of my net worth. . . $0/2.g


I never thought about a stop chain, just letting it go full vertical, but if
you don't have some sort of a stop, it won't reset back to horizontal. I
have been working on my book solid for the last two days, and it has been
hot as blazes here. Too hot to go outside. 110 forecast.

I'm not fond of heat myself. I played with this right in front of
the squirrel cage [the irony escaped me until just now] fan I salvaged
from my old furnace. That moves some air!

I went out to
the shop a while ago and turned on the cooler and opened the door. Am going
to go out there tonight and work on it a bit. I don't want those squirrels
to get ahead of me on the apple trees like they did on the almond trees.
Great to hear that the principle works. I guess they don't hesitate to go
into the tunnel. And once it tips, it doesn't matter how much the pipe
weighs.

If some physics geek is reading this I hope he/she chimes in- I'm sure
it makes some difference-- just don't know if it makes enough for us
to think about.

Jim