Re: Rattletrap?


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Posted by Peter H on August 08, 2005 at 20:22:11 from 86.130.139.176 user Peter_H.

In Reply to: Re: Rattletrap? posted by Laurence Monkhouse on August 08, 2005 at 16:46:47:

Billy mixing oil with petrol? No, I don't buy that. He went off on Nancy's bike 'and fetched a can [of petrol] from head o' t'lake'. 'I come back,' said Billy, 'and there was t'owd car where I'd left it . . .' Then . . .'I emped the petrol in . . .'. Nothing about mixing petroil. I doubt if Billy was in a fit state to mix carefully half a pint of oil with 2 gallons of petrol.

When a Trojan was stationary, it was still 'in gear' because it had an epicyclic, i.e. 'sun and planet' gearbox, and I assume that this can be set so as to 'cancel out' any motion applied to it. How the torque was actually applied, I don't know - I think it was via a 'band' of some sort. I'm struggling here - is there a mechanical engineer on the Board? JMN must surely know - spit it out, Prof!


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