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Old 03-21-2008, 02:02 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BiscuitSlayer View Post
You would effectively be taking all of that weight and transfering it to your floor rather than evenly transfering it to the lower frame (which covers more area).
Okay - that makes sense to me. So instead of the weight being primarily on the 4 corners, this sort of spreads it out more to the entire bottom frame. Would it have distributed the weight better/worse/same if you had placed the floaters nearer the center of the horizontal span?

Apologies - I'm just a dumb lawyer, and know nothing about forces and such.
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