Are Pythons now extinct?

[Bill PhinnParticipant @billphinn90025]

I did try to find more info about the patent, Michael, but without success.

 

Anyway, in the name of science I sacrificed a perfectly functional Python no.2.

If anyone can explain the physics behind the spring in the handle, I’d be fascinated to hear it.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Very gallant of you, Sir !

MichaelG.

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Let me have first-stab at the Physics

Inserting the File-tang in the normal way will expand and distort the spring to some extent, and will embed it into the wood … at the same time, the spring will grip tightly onto the corners of the tang.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

With such a short spring I would have thought wobble was likely as you are only gripping a short length of the tang

[pmm1Participant @pmm1]

B & H 1968

Drawing of Python handle arrangment

 

Paul

 

 

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Nice find, Paul 

… just a little late to save Bill’s specimen

MichaelG.

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