Black-Tooth
Tony Natoli
That's the only currency we use in SoCal! nt
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Don't know how a cut and paste from one of my posts ended-up the subject of the this thread :wacko: but....
I did a lot more with the race-car stuff at my last job (Tractech) than I do now so I havent seen a Weismann Locker in years! Carol Smith really seems to think they are special in his books but they really function very similar to a Detroit Locker only instead of dog-teeth, they use a roller-ramp clutch. Granted they are very smooth relative to a Detroit.
Look-up US patent # 3,383,611 for the details.
The only things I have worked on recently in motorsports are helical diffs for the CORR trucks and Trophy trucks. The OEM world is moving toward active devices with electronic controls. Although there is still some interest in passive devices, the current state-of-the-art is wet-clutches and ECU's. My appologies to Luddites.:wink2:
... reams of knowledge on all things nautical!
HAHAHA!
Good chatting with ya...
I had no idea that the design was that old. Looks like ng_randolph was right on the money.
I look at the cone and clutch setups and such, and can't for the life of me figure out how they work. But the first time I saw this, it was immediately obvious. Very nice design.
Now if only we could get some built for the X!
Pete
Thanks for all the info! Good stuff to bore our women with!
HA!