Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
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Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
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#2Seems hug-o-death'd; wayback link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180608222850/https://chcollins...
Re: Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
#3TL;DR - because the wire attachment point is usually to the rear of the center of gravity.
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#4TL;DR - because the wire attachment point is usually to the rear of the center of gravity.
when a succinct John Nagle TL;DR is worth a handful of animated diagrams.
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#5Author discovered value of free body diagrams.
Re: Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
#6TL;DR - because the wire attachment point is usually to the rear of the center of gravity.
when a succinct John Nagle TL;DR is worth a handful of animated diagrams.
The graphs and diagrams are more useful because they show what variables the tilt depends on, ie how to reduce the tilt if you want to.
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#7Author discovered value of free body diagrams.
Maybe we can all learn the value of diagrams. Drawing on paper is not cheating!
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#8It's amazing somebody would write, draft and plot so much on a 7th grade physics problem.
Re: Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
#9TL;DR - because the wire attachment point is usually to the rear of the center of gravity.
And it's hard to fix without poking something through the wall that you probably want to keep pristine, because glass weighs a lot.
Unless you modify the frame. Or screw into the top of the frame. Or loads of options that aren't taken for one reason or another because "the frame has a wire across it" is utterly dominant.
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#10TL;DR - because the wire attachment point is usually to the rear of the center of gravity.
Yes, however the discussion is more valuable than that. I once bought a framed poster at a garage sale and discovered when I got it home that it had a steel plate across the bottom of the frame. I thought it a bit of over engineering for adding frame support (it attached to the back of the frame with machine screws) but when you hung the poster it hung flat against the wall. I took me a couple of weeks to figure out the person do did that was moving the CG of the framed print closer to the wall which made hit hang nearly flat on the wall.
When reading the referenced article I realized it also allowed for an arbitrarily tightly stretched cross wire because the steel plate would bear all of the stress, not the art. That was something I had not thought of!