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Lew Hodgett[_6_] Lew Hodgett[_6_] is offline
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Default For you math wizards

Doug Miller wrote:

Pipe don't stretch. String do.

I found out just how much string stretches last summer when laying
out a
curved sidewalk. Next
time I do a project like that, I'm using something rigid to mark my
arcs:
board, angle iron, steel
rod, something like that -- but *not* string.

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Which is why full size arcs by swinging a radius SUCKS.

There is an easier way to run the railroad.

See Fig 5-42 over on APBW.



Lew