Though I have written Steve off as hopelessly confused on this issue, I
find that I too have a strong urge to correct him as you have done here.
But I have found that posts such as yours, no matter how excellent or well
reasoned, just made do not make any impact on his thinking.

You watch. There is a 70% chance that he will argue with this post and then
challenge you to correct *his* logic, not to study *your* logic. Everything
you say here is true, but Steve by historical precedent will not likely
listen to it.

Every time I log on to my computer, I say, "Steve will not listen to you.
Do not think upon this any more." And then I find myself composing in my
head replies such as you have to correct him, but I am resisting posting
any more because it is a hopeless cause and not worth it.

I now distrust what he had to say about alignments too.

At 02:29 AM 7/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi SpringHeads,
>
>I can't belive I care enough to continue this thread, but I do.
>
>I don't really want to show anyone wrong, but to help just a bit on spring
>charactaristics.  There have been a few excellent posts recently describing
>the charactaristics of springs and such, so I won't go into much detail, but
>hopefully allow a picture I made to do the talking.
>
>Spring Rate:
>Spring rate (K) is the constant that is used in spring equations to relate
the
>"stiffness" of a spring.  Typically used as a "deflection/force"

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