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Yeah well this only LOOKS like a poll......
- Thread starter Lucille
- Start date
Seamus Haley
Big Game Hunter
The slinky is actually causing me a great number of headaches lately...
See, there's one that sits ontop of every computer I've got, it's there for periods of time when I am forced to wait and those occassions when I want to put my fist through the monitor (past experience has taught me that the monitor seems to be more damage resistant than my hand). I'm not big on walking them down stairs, merely inshifting the weight of the coils from hand to hand. Slinkys are balanced... the height of one at rest is about equal to the diameter of the coils, it's why the stairs thing works as far as I can tell... I want a longer slinky. Something where the amount of weight shifted as the coils are pulled from hand to hand is more substantial and the amount of time between shifts is longer.
I took a few (three) of them and linked the edges together... but the problem is that slinkys are normally "sealed" by linking the top coil to the one below it and the result of my frankenslinky is seams where the motion isn't smooth because there are four coils banded together. I'm seriously considering the idea of removing the existing band and then trying to sauter the end links together for a more even motion but I'm honestly not sure if that will really solve the problem (and if enough sauter to hold the ends together while the slinky is moving wouldn't just make it worse than the clamped bands I'm using now).
Oh and... What did I say about the Pats and the AFC Championship? Oh yeah...
See, there's one that sits ontop of every computer I've got, it's there for periods of time when I am forced to wait and those occassions when I want to put my fist through the monitor (past experience has taught me that the monitor seems to be more damage resistant than my hand). I'm not big on walking them down stairs, merely inshifting the weight of the coils from hand to hand. Slinkys are balanced... the height of one at rest is about equal to the diameter of the coils, it's why the stairs thing works as far as I can tell... I want a longer slinky. Something where the amount of weight shifted as the coils are pulled from hand to hand is more substantial and the amount of time between shifts is longer.
I took a few (three) of them and linked the edges together... but the problem is that slinkys are normally "sealed" by linking the top coil to the one below it and the result of my frankenslinky is seams where the motion isn't smooth because there are four coils banded together. I'm seriously considering the idea of removing the existing band and then trying to sauter the end links together for a more even motion but I'm honestly not sure if that will really solve the problem (and if enough sauter to hold the ends together while the slinky is moving wouldn't just make it worse than the clamped bands I'm using now).
Oh and... What did I say about the Pats and the AFC Championship? Oh yeah...