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z14 bevel gears (was Re: hinges and bevel gears, was Re: 60 degree problem
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Thu, 29 Jul 1999 23:42:12 GMT
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Okay, I'll bite -- how do you get 7/6 to be anywhere close to SQRT(3)? 7/6 is
1.167, and SQRT(3) is 1.732. Is there an additional 2:3 ratio hidden inside the
"8880 transmission"?
Also, I'm having a little trouble figuring out how the transmission works in
the 8880. The instructions are here:
http://www.kl.net/scans/8000/8880/
and I've figured out that it has four wheel drive with three differentials, and
a mechanism for engaging one of four different output shafts to the input (or
the other way around, because you turn the wheels to make the pistons go) --
but it's still a little hard to see how it all fits together. It also looks
really spread out so I'm wondering if all that stuff is really part of the
transmission.
- Robert Munafo
In lugnet.build, Gregor Benedikt Rochow writes:
> [...]
> [2] I found a great new use for these - at 1.5 studs center distance
> (or the equivalent 1-stud-over, 1-brick-up),
> they mesh well with the replacement z12 bevel gear,
> particularly if you use 2 z14s back-to-back and 2 z12s fac-to-face.
> Ratio is 6:7, of course. Very useful for a very compact 8880 (SuperCar)
> transmission; 7/6 is very close to SQRT(3), so 7/6 on the input
> and 3/1 on teh output axles results in ratios of (roughly)
> 1, SQRT(3), 3, 3*SQRT(3). Very nice ratios, and very compact, particularly
> combined with the V8 moved to the front and FWD only (will Consumer
> Affairs sell me 4 more 8880 wheels, so I can have 2 FWD cars?).
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