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The corporate agenda drives the politics, not the other way round. Our kind of cars are dead because they aren't what the industry wants made....
I regard the automobile as having become extinct around 1990.
20bhp single, probably around 200-250cc, with boring CVT.
Environmental issues are real but the mainstream response has been steered to a paradigm which serves to increase the prevailing capital...
Worst was, most of it was bounced off my part of the world, making it necessary to block all South African IP addresses. I only got a chance to...
A gas-pressurized monotube damper might have a piston area of perhaps 3 sq. in. Assuming a realistic rear corner weight of around 900lbs unladen,...
On FB: "1939 prototype designed by Jean Edouard Andreau on the basis of a Citroen Traction Avant." [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Opinion, indeed. That isn't to say that opinion isn't subject to analysis. How safe is safe? It is probably impossible to pin down, but it's not...
I've been like that since my 20s!
Never let it be said that I am incapable of admitting that I was wrong. I owe @2OLD2FAST an apology. I was confusing stress and strength. I think...
Some strange things have been fixed with Pratley's (our version of JB Weld). Oddly, the more it has the character of a scandalous bodge job, the...
You know, you've got a point. I missed that the nut puts the heim in tension, reducing the shear capacity by that amount. If a bolt etc. isn't...
Tensile stress and shear stress are calculated identically. There might be conventional adjustments due to the extraneous factors I mentioned e.g....
Barring extraneous factors, shear strength equals tensile strength. But we're dealing with a bending moment here.
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