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    Re: new (to me) use for worms —Frank Filz
   (...) If I'm understanding the workings, what is being suggested is to use the worm as a slip coupling (which just happens to have a worm screw). If you look at a cars drive shaft, you will see that it is in two parts so that it can change length. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
   
        Re: new (to me) use for worms —Gregor Benedikt Rochow
   (...) Yes. (...) I did not know that. I've accepted over time that a number of things in car suspensions must work simply by having room to wiggle a bit, but that this particulalr problem is avoided *that* simply explains a lot. (Wait till you see (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
   
        Re: new (to me) use for worms —Frank Filz
   (...) I've been up close and personal to a drive shaft. I had an old Chevy van which liked to get into 2nd & reverse at the same time (fortuanately always while stopped - because the vehicle will not go ANYWHERE in this condition, if it happened at (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
 

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