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Old 24-09-2007, 06:58 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hang tests etc

Ok..........someone here more sharp than me [ most of ya ] way back posted a couple of easy ways to work out a machines
" COG........COM.........Thrustlines" etc etc...............any chance of seein em again please. [ i need em ]
lickin me finger and holdin it up into the wind no longer works.
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Old 24-09-2007, 08:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Hmmm...... what's a person like you doing wanting to hang test a machine?


You suddenly got rich or something?


Come on fess up.
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Old 24-09-2007, 09:33 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Hang tests etc

oi Russ

I'm sure on the yankee forum they reckon use a laser level is the easiest. Call me i got an opinion

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Re: Hang tests etc

This may be the thread:

Lamaroo COG/thrustline tests.


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Old 25-09-2007, 08:37 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Hang tests etc

Russ. Do a search on the us forum using my user name and CoM as the subject. That should get all the info. I have posted a number of times how to conduct finding the CoM by the two pic method.

I will try and find the info in my documents folder tonight.

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Old 25-09-2007, 06:17 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Hang tests etc

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Hmmm...... what's a person like you doing wanting to hang test a machine?


You suddenly got rich or something?


Come on fess up.



Down to me last 10 grand, got mum fillin shelves at night, any chance of a donation
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Only donation you are getting will be a bullet..... My mate south of you said he'd go halves .....
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you got no mates...........maaaate

anyway, the guy you is referencin i love him like a brother, and it's mutual
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Here it is Russ.

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