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Subject: Re: Miniature Pseudo-SASS Array
From: "Neil Tungate" neil_eurodead
Date: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:21 am ((PDT))
On 10/08/2012 17:50, Curt Olson wrote:
> Bernie,
>
> The key is no doubt the angles and proportions hammered out by the original 
> SASS designers years ago. Rob Danielson has shown that it scales up, and I've 
> shown that it scales down, which I think really tells us something about the 
> original design.
>
> You asked for more details about how I made it. Not to be coy or to hold 
> back, but I just don't have an app for drafting it out into a document that 
> could be shared across the internet. My hand drawing is a mess, and it's a 
> bit too complicated to lay it out in writing. Rob's plans have all the angles 
> and dimensions. I found it to be really quite easy to down-size, pretty much 
> the way a cook might scale up or down a recipe. I used a piece of 2"x3" stud 
> for main the body. The nose piece was cut out separately and screwed on. For 
> sizing cues, think of a small pocket camera with its lens extended.

Curt, if you simply tell us the width of your design we can work out the 
rest from the published dimensions of a full-sized SASS.

Neil


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