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Re: 32 Long Axles
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Date: 
Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:01:36 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote:
Anyone have one to bring to dinner?

I can bring some to show, they're pretty neat.  I can't think of a project that
I would use them for, but there might be some useful ones like the Mindstorms
photocopier or some factory assembly stuff.

Hrm.  Wouldn't it be neat if there was a factory that made things automatically.

If you had two, you could roll a soccer ball down them...

The longer the axle is...  the more likely it would be to twist under torque. I
wonder how TLC has approached that issue..  perhaps a new plastic ?

Ray



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(...) I tend to design assemblies with long shafts in a method that is analogous to how high power electricity is transmited over long lines. If you think about torque as amps and voltage as speed, it's just like that. Shafts don't (generally) care (...) (20 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) If you had two, you could roll a soccer ball down them... (20 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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