Klaus
I appreciate your response, and your offer to do the calculations and testing. $3,500 does not sound unreasonable for the scope of work you propose...However my wife works in design engineering for United Space Alliance and is up to her eyeballs in every discipline of world class engineer you can imagine, several floors deep. After 32 years at the Kennedy Space Center, and her position in design engineering operations, she knows, and has worked with, the majority of them personally at one time or another. My search is now focused on the same information that I would need to supply to you if you were to do the calculations. Capable engineers are fortunately not a problem for me...I just need the specific information...and I may have found it from a source outside of this forum. I have no shortage of family, friends and my wife’s co-workers who are engineers that would be happy to do it as a favor...you can't compete with free...especially when it is coupled with some of the greatest engineering minds on the planet. Thank you again for your offer to help.

Regards,
Bob