[MHml] mast woes

[George Wade]

The link might be to prevent the diamond shroud falling out of the  
diamond spreader groove.  It was not perfectly clear if the link was  
attached to ...?

G

On 17-Oct-06, at 10:25 AM, Roy Mills wrote:

> At 01:13 AM 10/17/06, you wrote
>          Not sure I follow that. I agree that for a given length of
> material under a given stretch load a piece half as long will only
> stretch half as much, but surely when one links the two halves
> together the total stretch will add up to being the same as for the
> full length piece, plus any tolerance in the linkage.
>
>> Hi Peter
>>    Long rod sections stretch, you can go to a larger size to stop
>> it, or you can put a link at the spreader.
>> Mike
>>
>> Peter Southwood <peter.southwood at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>> Whar is the point of cutting the span in half in this way?
>> Cheers,
>> Peter