11-21-2008, 06:59 AM
Paul B. wrote:
...well I don't think your ideas assist you here! :lol:
From an engineering point of view, a bronze rim less than 0.5 mm thick adds no "tensile strength" whatsoever, and still less if it is 'dagged' like many of those shown here!!
Quote:I could of course be wrong, but damn if my scheme doesn't explain a whole lot of otherwise idiosynchratic features of the panoply.
...well I don't think your ideas assist you here! :lol:
From an engineering point of view, a bronze rim less than 0.5 mm thick adds no "tensile strength" whatsoever, and still less if it is 'dagged' like many of those shown here!!
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
