{"id":411,"date":"2009-08-19T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=411"},"modified":"2012-11-23T04:24:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T08:24:10","slug":"pivot-tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Pivot Tester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enzo wanted pictures of Mark Halpern&#8217;s BLAST pivot tester. So, here they are.<\/p>\n<p>It has turnbuckles for grabbing the pivot tabs (on the stator) and holding tension. Currently nothing grabs the rotor, but Pedro is working on that.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-411 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=412'><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123106-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123106-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123106-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123106-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-412'>\n\t\t\t\tThe pivot tester as a whole\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=413'><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123115-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123115-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123115-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123115-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-413'>\n\t\t\t\tThe bottom has turnbuckles at correct angles to grab the pivot tabs.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=414'><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123124-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123124-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123124-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090819123124-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-414'>\n\t\t\t\tThe top does not yet have anything for grabbing the rotor.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enzo wanted pictures of Mark Halpern&#8217;s BLAST pivot tester. So, here they are.<\/p>\n<p>It has turnbuckles for grabbing the pivot tabs (on the stator) and holding tension. Currently nothing grabs the rotor, but Pedro is working on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5957,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}