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Old 01-14-2011, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by leathermang View Post
The longer one will give more...
but you have not made it stiffer...
you have simply doubled the wire length and it is giving under the same load per increment of length.
Cutting the length will make it bottom out faster... but does not make it stiffer.
I don't understand your first three lines and I disagree with your third. Tonight I will try to decifer what Roy posted.
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