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>>> Your fears are shared in my hanger as well. In that I am in the USA,
I will take my new stronger mass balance arm to my trusty welder and
have a cable attachment flange put on it. As you so wisely concluded,
the cable installation was not designed well. The idea is fine, but if a
builder can not do it well, it is a bad design. I installed the
turnbuckles and feel that fixed the design problem.
Your comments are reflected by some in NZ also and I know of three
builders who, myself included, will be welding a cable attachment
flange to it and using the existing turnbuckle tensioned stay wires on
it. My father, who is a mechanical engineer, told me many years ago that
if you want something to stay put make it out of triangles and that's
what I intend retaining on my mass balance arm.
Regards
Tony
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