Recent content by Rdyno

I understand what you are saying. What I was wanting to know say if you lay a progressive twist rate flat on a 2d surface it's going to make a curve. what I want to know is if you have a cycloid lying flat on a 2d surface how do you twist it into a helix and then get the start twis rate of the...

Hi all this is my first post. Okay I can have a rifle cut into a barrel at any twist rate I want, so I want to see if a cycloid can work for what I want. Now most twist rates are static so as an example one barrel may be 1 turn in 12 inches for 26 inches an example of what is called a gain...