On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 03:04, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> > Note, these are a daft idea. But I have actually seen a 9 foot > > diameter triple helical in my dad's old workplace. He did need to > > explain to me why it was silly, and why they refused to replace it and > > specced a double instead. > > That's easy, the teeth in the middle were carrying twice the thrust load. It isn't that it is that it is kinematically redundant, one of the sets of teeth will see no load at all. (Though possibly, over time, they might wear to share equally) -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
