On 5/17/2019 3:03 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2019 00:54:16 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:
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Nothing immense about it. That other one
you were shown will hold a 100lb weight fine.

But the leverage.* Hold a car battery at arms length with no support
under your arm.

I just did the moment arm balance below -- the rated 100 lb distributed
load on a 5" wide shelf is reasonably conservative compared to estimated
limits.

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