Well, your mistresses could appreciate it. Talk with them, who knows?
Dear smaldj, sorry if it seems that our intention is to blame you somehow for something.
On the contrary, thanks a lot, very interesting, please keep them coming. Allow me to explain a little, will ya?
We do not want to shred things, we want
to learn from you. Up to this minute, I've learned a bit, thanks again.
Please, give us more crazy ideas, we love them, specially urban legends, which usually are the most "tasty" (that's why they're famous: they're are credible but improbable).
Besides, in this forum (while I'm alive!), we always think we can be mistaken: I can have the wrong numbers, the wrong equations, or the wrong assumptions and for me is very comforting to know that there is people in this world that shares enough my interests to check them.
You know something? Better yet, from those crazy ideas, specially when criticized with
numbers, come the GREAT ideas in engineering.
In five seconds domdogger took your proposition, our contributions to it and found an idea for a launch control system: if you could use the axle as a clutch...
In a few minutes
ringo showed that when you make the axle thinner, you reach one degree of twisting, which is A LOT. I think that under one degree, the thing could break, but that requires a couple of calculations more.
Anyway, only when I saw
his calculations did I realize that this darn thing of twisting is proportional to the FOURTH power of the diameter of the axle and that maybe strad and his paint lines can have a grain of truth in them.
Mikey_s stated (somehow) that this "launching clutch" should have less resistance than the one the wheels have,
which shows you two things: wheels are "natural clutches" under heavy power, which makes you thing about
taller wheels with taller sidewalls if you want to exploit this "Mikey_s effect" in drags. Secondly, you could devise a clutch for launching if you, for example, made a section of the axle of rubber, for example, so that it
twists by design.
Finally, you want urban legends?
I can give you urban legends. Compared with them, The Legend of The Twisting axle is only a beginning.
Let me explain: all drivers, me included, believe in Voodoo. For example:
- they think green cars bring bad luck
- they do not eat peanuts the day of the race
- they do not eat fried chicken
- they put the left glove first
- they use red gloves
- they think that Corvette bodies end crashing
-
... don't ask me why, I swear to high heaven I've heard
that.
Corvette body? No thanks!
Green Corvette: what could be worse? One with a twisting axle, perhaps?
