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Lobo:
… cross posting - is that Hydraulic Nige?
K2-K6:
--- Quote from: Lobo on January 09, 2023, 09:10:21 PM ---… cross posting - is that Hydraulic Nige?
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Yes, throttle is hydraulic, seems it's more common in earth moving equipment to use a hydraulic throttle too. That "moon" example appears to be from the custom car scene.
K2-K6:
slight sideways step in materials https://thepihut.com/products/ptfe-bowden-tube-for-1-75mm-filament seem to be using plain ptfe as bowden cable sleeve.
Remembering some years ago on Tomorrow's world, they had a guy trying to walk in football boots with ptfe studs on a stainless steel surface and without any success as demonstration of almost complete lack of friction.
Trivia, once working for a company completing warranty work at houses, knocked on a door and William Woolard opened it :)
Also the Sweeny, John Thaw at another. Not on the same day you'll understand, that would be freaky ;D
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
--- Quote from: K2-K6 on January 09, 2023, 08:58:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bryanj on January 09, 2023, 07:46:17 PM ---Remeber the first Hillman Imp, they had air hydraulic throttle that left you pumping the pedal to get revs!
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My dad's friend had an imp that had some difficulties ;D but I was too young to remember the details of what exactly was wrong.
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The Hillman Imp was a great motor close to the end of its production run - I had one as a loan car back in the 1960's - the transaxle seized on the M1 on my way to Bradford.
They overheated if the radiator was not bled properly etc.etc.
My cousin had a 998 Rallye Imp it cheesed me off as it could out perform my tweaked Cooper S - even on corners in the right hands.
Allegedly the air throttles failed due to the supplier cutting corners on the specifications not due to poor design.
Lobo:
If the (Scottish) Unions hadn’t disrupted the Imp’s production as much as they did, the car could have been better than the mini - so various clips of YouTube suggest. I owe it a lot, especially after hundreds of hours spannering, and hundred more sanding, filling and painting. Happy days.
Thanks Nige for the PTFE outer idea, I’ve been on eBay and securing lengths >2m seems to be the issue, though I have found a 5m run from China (prob infers a ‘no’ that). Q - is this material hard, ie will it resist the odd light knock and NOT deform around light radiuses? I saw a hardness factor of 55, but tbh have no inkling of what that means practically.
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