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Re: Ideas for new sets?
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:50:14 GMT
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James Powell wrote:
> I'm just more thinking of coolness factor, and caliper units which the flex
> system activated, and gripped onto a 4x4 pulley seems way up there to me.
I've tried making such a system, and unless lego comes out with
high-friction pads, there is no way to clamp down a 4x4 pulley hard
enough to notice any braking action. The ratio between 4x4 pulley and
big wheel is too great, plus us humans push the cars with a lot of force.
Another setback is the fact that the flex cables aren't as flexible or
frictionless as one would want/need in a suspension system, and they
take up huge amounts of room too.
//Henry Chea
hchea@kungstorget.nu
*S* Göteborg, jaja, jag behöver inget mer! *S*
http://www.kungstorget.nu
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| (...) How about putting a rubber band in the groove of the pulley, and have the calipers grip opposide sides (ie accross a diameter)? Not as technically correct, but a lot more stopping power. Or use rubber bands on the calipers themselves? ROSCO (24 years ago, 31-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| Some vehicles prototypically have brakes on (...) not quite true. One of the cars I drive on occasion has its brake on the dif (it has no transmission per se, just a chain and dif aft of the engine...its a replica of a 1903 Locomobile) I'm just (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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