Wow, increadible what a shower can do with ones creativity :D
Will remind that one.
Kevin
2008/4/3, John Kagan <john_kagan_at_hotmail.com>:
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com<Indoor_Construction%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Sandy Schaefer
> <SandySchaefer708_at_...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
>
>
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