flex is a funny thing flex is generally not wanted in steel tooling, my old taiwanese "chocolate" spanners come to mind, they looked like they had been stamped out of hot chocolate and the jaws would flex open when called apon to remove a difficult nut yet most of us have found when trying to remove a difficult wood screw that using a long handled screw driver is much better than using one with a stubby shaft why?, because the rotational flex allows us to wind up the torque rather than try to deliver it all at once what does this have to do with paddles?, very little i suspect but my home made wooden paddles feel nicer to use than my cheap alloy shafted paddle so as i am not a racer if it feels nicer i use it more eric e eric e __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 17 2003 - 06:43:25 PDT
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