Combining wood with metal will damp resonant responses and will reduce
peak stresses. 73 de WO0W
MIKE GREENWAY wrote:
snip - I asked a structual engineer afterward about doing this and he said
they sometimes combine wood with metal to increase the strength. Whether it
is worth doing or not I cannot say but it made me feel a lot better.73 Mike
K4PI
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