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Re: new (to me) use for worms
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lugnet.build
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Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:30:54 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Frank Filz writes:
> 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
Yes.
> you look at a cars drive shaft, you will see that it is in two parts so
> that it can change length. Terrible ASCII graphic of car drive shaft:
> +- this axle is fixed
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> v -------------+
> ========================= |||||| this axle can slip in and out
> -------------+
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 my solution
to alignment that consists of just a solid rear axle swinging
from a (single-U-jointed) driveshaft, with leaf-spring-like
rubber bands going over it on both ends and thereby locating
it quite straight - a single (tough, not Lego) rubberband
replaces several balljoints.)
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| (...) 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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| | Re: new (to me) use for worms
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| (...) 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)
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