This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Tension Rod
Jul
19
2018
I was shopping around for a new curtain rod for the shower and I noticed that they were all titled “tension rod”.
They were titled that because they are held in place by pressing against the walls, rather than by being fastened to the walls.
But from what I learned in college, that’s wrong.
The curtain rod is pushing against the walls so it is being compressed. It should be a compression rod.
A tension rod would be somewhere that needed to prevent two walls from spreading apart.
Maybe a better way to do this is to picture a spring in the middle of the bar. To get the curtain rod to stay in place, you wedge it in place – what happens to the spring compared to its normal state? It is compressed. When a tension rod is in use, it is experiencing compression.
Whoever named that thing a tension rod has some explaining to do.
You shall break them with a rid of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.
Psalm 2:9
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