You WOULD have been correct IF that is what I said...but, you missed the phrase referring to this as - after the RESTING POSITION...IE: AFTER the neutral point.



So, you are arguing with something I didn't say...

I'll stand by my description of the shackle movement, swinging in and out, in response to the leaf end movement...and, as we AGREE on that...

The shackle swings in and out as the leaf moves...and, after the leaf has arched past its resting point (The shape it has if you left it laying on the ground dissconnected, etc....)...it swings in FURTHER as the tire/axle weight pulls the leaf center down, and the amount of leaf arc is increased, etc.

Period.



AND - as this is accepted as true - the MORE the shackle can swing in...the FURTHER the center of the leaf can droop down.

AND - as the Revolver merely LETS the shackle swing further, and the tire droop more, it provides more droop than a convention lift shackle.

AND - as the EXTRA droop occurs AFTER the regular shackle swing was maximized...the extra traction ALSO occurs after this point.

AND - as the LEVERAGE of the live axle is what provides MOST of either type of shackle's down force after the leaf's neutral point...the TRACTION of the Revolver is merely the same as what the regular shackle would have supplied if it were longer.

As for it somehow MATTERING if "I wheel every day"...?

I say I worked my whole life...If I take a vacation or call in sick....I can't say that?

I've been wheeling since the '70's...I wheel for work, plus, more lately in my life, recreationally...I've been working nights and weekends to make up for the days at the doctors and hospitals...we have other trucks at work...I just prefer mine, but I use what's in the lot.

If I can't be with the one I love, I wheel the one I'm with.

Some how this changes what I said?

What if I had documentation that I wheeled 27 hrs a day, 8 days a week, for a 1,000 yrs...and I said that tires are made of baby seals?

I'd suddenly be an expert?

No - I mentioned it in direct response to another post that implied they wheeled more so they must know everything, etc....it was dismissive, not a boast.

The ONLY reason this has turned into a constant thread...is that it really bothers me when people who DON'T have them, go on about things they THINK are true, but, simply are not.

People read a thread with a stream of overwhelming info....and can't process it all...so they skip to the end to see what others said/thought...as they did with the Plane on the Tread Mill thread.



This Revolver Myth is like the Plane on the Tread Mill....the one's who don't get it...are SO sure they DO get it, that they go on trying to convince people that they are right.

In this case...I have a plane on a tread mill....it takes off.

I am arguing with those who do NOT have a plane on a tread mill...who are telling me it WON'T take off.

Surely, this can be understood as frustrating at least?