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Re: Paddle: PADDLE SHAFT STRENGTH TESTS
By:Gene
Date: 5/1/2013, 7:12 pm
In Response To: Re: Paddle: PADDLE SHAFT STRENGTH TESTS (Bill Hamm)

Creating a spare paddle as a spare safety paddle is the focus. Aluminum shaft maybe support a 170 pounder with one ankle at bottom, one hand at top shaft near kayak with bottom floating on a NRS float bag.

An online metals supplier offers a calculator but the input is for weight loaded at center length: AL 1" tubing doesn't support at 5'

I walked past the NRS straight plasticlike tubing shafted WW paddles today. I haven't examined these paddles as I would a kayak paddle.

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Paddle: PADDLE SHAFT STRENGTH TESTS
Gene -- 4/27/2013, 8:49 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 4/27/2013, 12:23 pm
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Gene -- 4/27/2013, 8:20 pm
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Mike Savage -- 4/28/2013, 6:42 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 4/29/2013, 6:39 am
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Gene -- 4/29/2013, 9:06 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 5/1/2013, 7:17 am
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risto -- 4/29/2013, 3:37 am
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Gene -- 4/30/2013, 10:24 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/1/2013, 1:42 am
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Gene -- 5/1/2013, 7:12 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/2/2013, 10:05 am
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Gene -- 5/2/2013, 12:07 pm
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Mike Savage -- 5/2/2013, 1:49 pm
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Mark Vander Horck -- 5/2/2013, 2:13 pm
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Gene -- 5/4/2013, 11:43 pm
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Gene -- 5/6/2013, 9:28 am
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Mike Savage -- 5/6/2013, 2:28 pm
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Gene -- 5/6/2013, 7:37 pm
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Roy Martin -- 5/6/2013, 7:51 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/7/2013, 1:26 am
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Etienne Muller -- 5/7/2013, 4:00 am
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Gene -- 5/7/2013, 8:03 am
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Mike Savage -- 5/7/2013, 2:24 pm
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Gene -- 5/7/2013, 7:52 pm