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Unread 19-12-2003, 22:46
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Originally Posted by George1083
What if you had treads driven by a 3" pully instead of 6" wheels? I'm pretty sure that would satisfy the 10 fps and 150 lbs requirements without burning up.

The size of the wheel is immaterial to the calculations.

If John wanted to do ALGEBRA rather than ARITHMATIC (he did not do MATH as he claimed ;-) he could have made the exact same arguments with the size of the wheel being any arbitrary size.

I will answer his comments in another message, but rest assured that the size of the wheel is not part of the answer.

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