At 07:16 AM 11/4/02 -0700, Larry Hoy wrote:
>....
> > My OF memory bank seems to recall that the omniscient Barney
> > Gaylord did a dissertation on the physics of wheel rotation
> > versus knockoff threads a couple of years ago.
>....
>As for Barney's message, it follows:
>....
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>
>At 01:41 PM 12/28/2000 -0600, Jeff Fayne wrote:
> >Perhaps an answer lies here, at least the logic appears correct:
> >http://www.vtr.org/maintain/wire-wheels-tightening.html
>
>Most of the _guesses_ are so far off the wall that you couldn't play
>handball with them, but ....
>....
>Another example may be more intuitive. Stand a roll of racers tape on
>edge, place a very large wrench socket inside of the tape roll, and
>proceed to to roll this assembly along a table top. ....
Man, that was like forever ago, and I forgot and didn't get it posted on my
web site. Who keeps the stuff? It even included a paragraph or two on
left handed lug nuts. Considering the date was just a few weeks prior to a
major computer crash and procurement of a new machine, I suppose it was
lost in the smoke. But I did just post it on line now, so thank you all
for the reminder.
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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