[Spridgets] Help - Seemingly Incurable Brake Fade

Dave G. kk7ss at verizon.net
Mon Oct 5 15:25:22 MDT 2009


Re: G-Forces...

At one stage in my nefarious life, I was repairing and calibrating 
aicraft gyroscope instruments - artificial horizons and compasses.
We started having a run of returned units.
Transportation in the laboratory was always by hand and in specially 
designed containers.
An expensive and long inverstigation showed that a technician, 
bumping the carrying case into a bench surface at a 3 mph walking 
pace could cause an instantaneous G-force of over 800G on the 
gyroscope spindles. Thus Brinelling the bearing surface and ruining 
the calibration...
Hand transportation was replaced with a conveyor belt system.

Anything is possible if we include 'instantaneous' or short-term 
events and/or forces.


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Dave G.   KK7SS  Richland, WA
'06 Honda Civic Hybrid
'65 MK III A-H Sprite
'76 MKIV 1500 Midget

Age is just another number... !


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