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Jack Forster
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Gee, I would have been kind of interested to see what a side load. . .

. . .would have done, but if it's axis Z, so be it .

I am not so sure the elaborate armor of the JLC is necessarily going to help.  There's a big difference between damping the effects of a sudden deceleration, and tolerating sustained high G loads.  I suppose you could even pull the hands off their pivots except what might save them is that their mass is awfully low.  One possible outcome I guess is that the balance pivots will be under such high pressure that the balance will simply stop. 

I guess it's possible that the vibrations will work parts loose as well- although we might perhaps all be surprised at how well the watches tolerate the test; everything's held in place with screws after all and for something to tear loose the screws would have to have their threads sheared off. . .

I dunno.  I guess we'll just have to wait and see

Jack