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30-06-2010, 07:26
Jared Russell
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Re: Crazy Drive Train Ideas
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iCurtis
This video seems to say it works just as well.
If any team wants to mold some enormous Archimedes screws like those, I'd bet you win some kind of technical award. Making weight would be fun though...
Nobody is saying you can't get a screw drive to move - just that it will be much, much more inefficient than just about anything else on terrain that isn't sand or snow.
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