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Yes, however the discussion is more valuable than that. I once bought a framed poster at a garage sale and discovered when I got it home that it had a steel pla

Yes, however the discussion is more valuable than that. I once bought a framed poster at a garage sale and discovered when I got it home that it had a steel plate across the bottom of the frame. I thought it a bit of over engineering for adding frame support (it attached to the back of the frame with machine screws) but when you hung the poster it hung flat against the wall. I took me a couple of weeks to figure out the person do did that was moving the CG of the framed print closer to the wall which made hit hang nearly flat on the wall. When reading the referenced article I realized it also allowed for an arbitrarily tightly stretched cross wire because the steel plate would bear all of the stress, not the art. That was something I had not thought of!

planede 3y ago
> I took me a couple of weeks to figure out the person do did that was moving the CG of the framed print closer to the wall which made hit hang nearly flat on the wall. As it was at the bottom of the frame, it also moved the CG lower, which also helps to reduce the tilt, even if the CG remains a little bit to the front. > When reading the referenced article I realized it also allowed for an arbitrarily tightly stretched cross wire because the steel plate would bear all of the stress, not the art. I don't really get this, if the plate was at the bottom. I assume the stretched wire would be attached somewhere at the top half, so the rest of the frame would need to bear at least some of the stress.
- ChuckMcM 3y ago
  It was a plate, probably 3" "tall" and as wide as the frame, attached in four places at each of the corners. As a result it held the frame rigid (much like a corner bracket would). If you pulled the top toward each other, in addition to the top bar of the frame resisting that pull, the bracket would resist and attempt to make the bottom/side angle less than 90 degrees.

planede 3y ago

> I took me a couple of weeks to figure out the person do did that was moving the CG of the framed print closer to the wall which made hit hang nearly flat on the wall. As it was at the bottom of the frame, it also moved the CG lower, which also helps to reduce the tilt, even if the CG remains a little bit to the front. > When reading the referenced article I realized it also allowed for an arbitrarily tightly stretched cross wire because the steel plate would bear all of the stress, not the art. I don't really get this, if the plate was at the bottom. I assume the stretched wire would be attached somewhere at the top half, so the rest of the frame would need to bear at least some of the stress.

ChuckMcM 3y ago
It was a plate, probably 3" "tall" and as wide as the frame, attached in four places at each of the corners. As a result it held the frame rigid (much like a corner bracket would). If you pulled the top toward each other, in addition to the top bar of the frame resisting that pull, the bracket would resist and attempt to make the bottom/side angle less than 90 degrees.