Mr. Clarke,
You are confusing me. You criticize the group for not possessing the knowledge to shorten a chain and yet you obviously do not
know, because you asked the question. Sounds like a very good case of self criticism for a task that is rather simple. Did you
expect the group to do your measurements, determine the type and location of the attachment points and pull the correct length out
of our ass?
Steve

"J. Clarke" wrote in message in.local...
I used to have a lot of respect for the knowledge of the people in this
newsgroup. However the recent discussion of safety chains, and the
inability of the whole lot of you to figure out how to shorten one
without a huge amount of sturm und drang, and the abuse that you have
heaped upon me over the method that I showed, that I learned from my
father who sailed before the mast back when that meant literally
sailing, and who learned to do such things in the school of hard knocks
known at the "Seabees" during WWII, and which any competent engineer
would be able to tell you is structurally sound, has revealed to me that
you're all blithering idiots who talk a good game but don't have a lick
of common sense between you.

I can't believe that you bunch of IDIOTs can't figure out how to shorten
a damned chain.