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Re: Another Technic Creation
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:34:52 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> I know what you mean about the 8448 gearbox. I just can't quite make that
> final mental step towards grokdom on it. It keeps eluding me.
There is a good section about gearboxes on http://www.howstuffworks.com/ ,
which should shed some light on the matter. It turns out that the 8448
gearbox is very similar to that in a real car, apart from not having synchros,
although as someone has pointed out to me before, not all real cars have
synchros...
Jennifer Clark
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| Yep. The main difference is that in a car gearbox, the slip rings are generally all on the same shaft, mad possible by the vastly larger selection of gear wheel sizes in "real life" 8?) ROSCO (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Another Technic Creation
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| (...) I agree with this, and most all your other points. (...) "Grokked". Sorry, I had just looked it up, and needed to do something with the soon-to-be-useless knowledge. I know what you mean about the 8448 gearbox. I just can't quite make that (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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