Timeline for Sword that is limp when in sheath, and hard when drawn?
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| Feb 14, 2020 at 10:24 | comment | added | Dan W | @DavidG. Interesting idea, that would certainly reduce the tension needed. But nested pieces would necessarily be thinner, so I'd be more worried about them bending, preventing them from sliding? Maybe something more like a tongue and groove would get the benefits without making them too thin? If I had a lathe I'd be tempted to try this out! | |
| Feb 13, 2020 at 12:12 | comment | added | David G. | On the floppy toy idea, you don't actually need that much tension on the cable if you have two independent nested sets of pieces. To relax the sword, you would relax the cable and do something that shifts the inner set to line up with the outer set. | |
| Feb 13, 2020 at 10:32 | comment | added | Dan W | @LiJun – sorry, no – this is the kind of thing: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31Ru3EuHHIL.jpg – they use a spring to keep tension, with a button on the bottom to release tension. | |
| Feb 13, 2020 at 10:22 | comment | added | Li Jun | is this the toy ? sorry since i dont know what floppy toy look like, but it an interesting concept. | |
| Feb 13, 2020 at 9:57 | history | answered | Dan W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
