Subject:
|
Re: APT tilts thru curves in Real-Build ABS form
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:56:51 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
967 times
|
| |
|
|
"James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message
news:GFK4wy.KD@lugnet.com...
> The pendular mechanism has a lever-arm-wedge that pushes "out" and "up" on
> the undercarriage. The tilt could be the result of the centripetal force
> through a curve, but weight of the car and the "zero" gap above the bogie
> plate between the undercarriage prevents the "swing" out of the wagon • body.
> Thus, I had to configure some kind of lever to push the lower part of the
> body "out" while allowing the body to also lift up. It puts quite a • stress
> on the wheels against the rails of the track as it is very much the case
> that the rotation of the wheel/bogie through a curve is the force to make
> the wagons tilt.
I must be very slow; I still don't get it! :)
Iain
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: APT tilts thru curves in Real-Build ABS form
|
| (...) The pendular mechanism has a lever-arm-wedge that pushes "out" and "up" on the undercarriage. The tilt could be the result of the centripetal force through a curve, but weight of the car and the "zero" gap above the bogie plate between the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
|
16 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
