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From: [email protected] (Randy Davis)
Subject: Re: Shaft-drives and Wheelies
Reply-To: [email protected]
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
|Course, the only people who seem to be acting smug now probably have chain
|final drive (which, as we all know, is less efficient and has higher
|maintenance) and probably didn't know the answer at the start of the thread.
When did *you* go out and change the laws of physics? :-) According to some
numbers I used to see bandied around, shaft drive is on the order of 95-97%
efficient, while chain drive is closer to 99%... Seems to me that this makes
*chain* drive more efficient, hmmmmm???
And granted, shaft has a lot less maintenance, which is fine, if you don't
mind less performance... :-) :-)
Randy Davis Email: [email protected]
ZX-11 #00072 Pilot {uunet!ucsd}!megatek!randy
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