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David, Weasel words are "government-ese" kind of language, where everything is couched in words like "maybe", "could have been", "might have been", etc. Cheers, Rand

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I’ve played around w/ Rifle shafts, when I was trying out different combinations for my own clubs.  I was surprised to find exactly the same frequency in a 5.0 shaft as a 5.5 shaft–and I mean exactly the same.  I called their tech support to ensure I was trimming correctly (I was), and they assured me it would work out.  Well, it didn’t. That’s why, Thomas, I’m a bit skeptical of the Rifle stuff, and why I’m trying to understand exactly what they’re claiming.  But those darned weasel-words get in the way!  :)

Look at the claims — see that each one is exactly one sentence long? This baby is easy — I’ve seen patents where a claim runs over more than one page… The way I read it, they are taking, as their example, three sets of frequency-matched untrimmed rifled shafts, and trimming to make three sets of clubs that are each on the same frequency slope, and at the same frequencies. Then they are noting that the frequency to which the original set of untrimmed shafts was matched is important: high frequency in the untrimmed set gives low kick point, low frequency gives high kick point.  (And: "Frequency is timing and stiffness distribution is feel" — which may be true or not, just because it says so in a patent doesn’t make it true…) They also say: "In each set the stiffness distribution in each shaft is predetermined and related to the other shafts in the set." Looks to me that they claim this solely by virtue of the raw shafts being frequency matched, though. If I understand your thoughts, you’re thinking of looking at the stiffness distribution along a raw shaft in a f-matched set? (I’d think this could be measured by compared by loading the shaft and measuring deflection at the tip, middle and butt and comparing across the set — maybe fiddling the spinefinder parts around would work for a rough and ready look? Or a deflection board with a very accurate measurement of the deflection…) Thomas Prufer

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It seems to me I heard somewhere that david s-a wrote in article I am intrigued by ‘weasel words’! It is not an expression I am familiar with…..it must be US ‘jargon’.

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