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Re: Questions about magnets.
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Originally Posted by Greg Young
Lord Corporation ( http://www.lord.com/Default.aspx?tabid=718) has been developing magnetorheological fluid applications for several years. The site has lots of interesting information and applications.
There must be a way to make a continuously variable transmission for a FIRST robot using this stuff, but I haven't come up with one yet.
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Well, Lord is located near us, and at a career fair I got to play around a bit with it. I cannot imagine a way that you could make a CVT with it, but a magnetic clutch is very feasible. FIRST or otherwise, it'd make for some nice shifting tranmissions!
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