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Re: you losers are SO going to lose R21
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Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:49:36 GMT
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On 28-Jul-06, at 3:37 PM, Calum Tsang wrote:
The rope isn't elastic because we don't want it to stretch while
playing, right?

Well, I was trying to build a thing to grip the rope....which
involved squeezing
the rope between two gear racks.  Needless to say it didn't work.
In my head I
for some reason thought the rope was soft, such that I could grip
at it like
that with the texture of the racks.  To make you proud, I even used
worm to 24
to power it.


The problem really is that the rope is slippery.  This makes it very
difficult to make a self locking mechanism to trap the rope.

Derek



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  Re: you losers are SO going to lose R21
 
(...) I think I've got something now that will, hopefully it will work. If not, oh well. Calum (18 years ago, 29-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) The rope isn't elastic because we don't want it to stretch while playing, right? Well, I was trying to build a thing to grip the rope....which involved squeezing the rope between two gear racks. Needless to say it didn't work. In my head I for (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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