Re: Kagan Loop?

From: John Kagan <john_kagan_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:27:42 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Sandy Schaefer
<SandySchaefer708_at_...> wrote:
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> I'll bite what is a "Kagan Loop"?

When we use a wire "yoke" on a VP (or whatever you want to call the
thing that attaches to the prop shaft and moves the little actuator
arms on the prop spars), we used to wrap the yoke around the prop shaft
and solder it.

Invariably it would come loose and the prop shaft would spin around
within the joint.

So one day it occurred to me (in the shower, where I do all my best
thinking) that we ought to wrap the .013" shaft around the .010" yoke.
Then you've got a nice mechanical hold on the thing.

Gary Underwood called it the "Kagan loop", and there ya go.
Received on Thu Apr 03 2008 - 12:28:04 CEST