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Re: Another Technic Creation
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Date: 
Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:55:08 GMT
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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

In lugnet.technic, Jennifer Clark writes:
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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(...) There is a good section about gearboxes on (URL) , 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 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)

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