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| (...) The steering was not impresive. It had a tunring circle of 1.62 meters. The worm gears in the axles meant that I could use fewer gears in gearing it down. This decreased the amount of play in the complete transmission and so starts climbing as (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I'd be interested in an l.s.d if it could be packaged small enough. Did you use worm gears on the axles as part of a telescopic drive shaft system? (...) But can you do it without the transmisson exploding? :-) Actually your figures sound (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I might be wrong, but if your incline is at 63 degrees, then the component of force (force being the weight of your model) along the inclined surface is = 4.5*sin(63) = 4.0 kg. That is the force, or pull, your model is generating in a (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Yes. The drive axles can move freely through the worm gear and the housing. (...) I can try. I'm more concerned that the axles might twist and break Allan (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) You should have saw the weird looks I got when I was walking down the street with it. I spotted a women in a bus shelter with a dog next to her sleeping. So what did I go and do. I drove over the dog, boy did it jump (smirk)8-). This top speed (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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