> While hanging your paddles from your garage door is an admirable use of > space, be aware that it is not a good use of energy. > Hanging *lots of stuff* on a garage door can be mitigated by installing stiffer extension springs, or adding preload to torsional springs in order to reduce the work the motor has to do - though swapping out springs/changing preload settings is not for the faint of heart. Those who hang *lots of stuff* on garage doors should also give some thought to maintaining horizontal trim of the door, by not excessively loading one end of the door. A bigger concern I would have is leaving some hard object close enough to the door so that the door clears, but the paddles don't. Hopefully the paddles would pop out of their holders, without any damage, and not catch on anything else....... A friend hangs all his paddles from the rafters to avoid deformation stresses on paddles that are stored horizontally or leaned against something. A loop of utility cord around either one blade of a kayak paddle, or around the grip of a canoe paddle, and the other end either tied around a rafter, or looped/hooked into the bottom of the rafter ensure that all gravity-induced stresses are along the long axis of the paddle shaft. I'm not as picky - my paddles are stored more or less vertically, inside a fiber drum in the back corner of the garage, behind the boat rack. Erik Sprenne *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Feb 18 2008 - 09:42:05 PST
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