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Re: Mechanical question
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:20:43 GMT
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JON@MIDNIGHTBEACH.ihatespamCOM
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Laurentino Martins wrote:
> As you (I hope you) can see, the smaller distance between tracks makes the distance A (in the first picture) much larger than the distance B (in the second picture).
> Those distances represent how much a track must be dragged sideways for the vehicle to rotate on it's own axis.
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> The larger the distance between the tracks, the less the tracks are dragged.
That makes sense - thanks!
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| (...) I'll try to explain this with an ASCII picture, but I'm make no promises about the quality... Please use a fixed font (as you always should in newsgroups) Legend: #### - Lower part of the track (the part that touches the ground). OOOO - Inner (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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