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Re: pic: Mangled Steel

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Originally Posted by NoRemorse
yea, if its on an arm, and arm extened has a HUGE lever arm. We have a cable that raises are arm. rated for 300#, but weve snapped it 3 times

next time u take a pic like that, use the macro
yeah, it was probably more gravity than anything, but we had a massive garage door spring on there that kept it neutral. I think it was inertia.

Still, thats pretty wicked awesome. I was going to take it and make a necklace out of it, but a friend of mine won a game of rock-paper-scissors for it. Curse his eyes!
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