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Doh!@
- Subject: Doh!@
- From: Nathan Wong <alfacors@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:23:57 +1000
>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:48:05 -0400
>From: "Sokoloff, Jim" <Jim-Sokoloff@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: Multiple-calipers on touring cars
>
>Nathan Wong <alfacors@domain.elided> wrote:
>
>> Touring cars discs are around 15" diameter, and the actual swept area
>isn't
>> that deep either (the outside of the disc rotates at a slowr speed than
>the
>> inside).
>
>How's that again? The outside of the disc has to rotate at a higher (linear)
>speed than the inside. Of course they have the same angular speed when all
>is working right... :-)
>
Yeah, I mixed them up....well, I had a 50% chance of being right :-)
Time to go fire up the record player and remind myself of how it all works
again!
>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:12:45 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Will Owen <nashwill@domain.elided>
>Subject: Brake discs
>Not unless the outer portion is part of a planetary geartrain, it
>doesn't! At least not in this universe...
>
See above :-)
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