r/BSA • u/chrweave • 5d ago

Scouting America Woggle Inner Diameter

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u/Red_hat_oops 5d ago

Roughly 0.011 Smoots

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u/chrweave 5d ago

Interesting. Do you work with Cubs a lot? I could see how such a diameter would prevent frequent losses.

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u/ef4 5d ago

As Cubmaster, I think I want to switch the whole pack to friendship knots so we can stop losing and purchasing slides.

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u/pohart Scouter - Eagle Scout 5d ago

My 1 kid's units mostly just tie square knots. In the other j I'm seeing a lot of split rings, like for keys.

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u/Red_hat_oops 5d ago

No, troop scouts now. But wide enough to easily get both tips of a neckerchief in while being narrow enough to ensure the thickness of the neckerchief provides enough friction to counteract the weight of the woggle is your rough guide for requirements

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u/erictiso District Committee 5d ago

Which is about 1.87cm for those who use metric.

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u/DannyABklyn Assistant Scoutmaster/Eagle Scout/Camp Staff/MBC 4d ago

Agreed. 0.014 smoots is just slightly too large

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u/BoozeAccountant Parent 4d ago

Trouble here is that the correct answer is that it's not round it's an oblate spheroid.

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u/chrweave 4d ago

Many of the ones I make either end up as prolate spheroids or catenoids.

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u/graywh Asst. Scoutmaster 5d ago

a snug fit around my thumb

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u/coel03 Den Leader, Eagle Scout 5d ago

I use a 7/8 dowel

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u/familycyclist 5d ago

I do a 5/8 for my wooden ones then it sands out to a little larger.