Why do old-fashioned lead lines have a hollow in the bottom of the lead weight?
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Thanks to everyione who sent in answers to last week’s question on”barber poling” in a sailboat’s rig. For the first time in a long, long time, no one got it right. The answer: in a sailboat’s rig with 1 x 19 wire stays and swaged turnbuckles, rust emerging from the top of a swaging creates a barber pole effect as the rust climbs one or more wire strands.
