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Unread 10-07-2005, 19:50
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Re: Final drive torque

That all works in theory... and you have to know the theory to understand the rest. But in real like efficiency of the gears really messes with things. We had a gearing for our arm that should have worked, but it didn't because efficiency of the gears.

So don't rely on something that *should* be right on at the limit, could very well lose a lot of torque to inefficiencies in the gears, and not work.
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