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- From: maglione@media.mit.edu (Tom Maglione)
- Subject: Re: The Bat
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.171828.15863@news.media.mit.edu>
- Summary: How do you know?
- Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug27.214745.25925@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:18:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.214745.25925@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> cf170@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kevin R. Russell) writes:
- >
- >Re: the shock absorbers on the bat---
- >
- >There were indeed shocks (actually they were dampers) on the bat
- >the only differance between then and now is that the bat only
- >had one per side instead of 4 on the current design
- >
- >The idea of the dampers is that they would take out high
- >frequency changes in swing, but still allow the slow swings
- >that were supposed to be designed into the ride.
- >
- >have a nice day woodieheads
-
- Hi Kevin,
- Your explanation sounds plausible, even your engineering analysis
- about the high-frequency changes in swing. Can you tell us how you got your
- info, i.e.-you sound like you worked at the park or something. Also, are you
- a mechanical or other type of engineer?
- Thanks,
- Tom "technoid" Maglione
-
-