On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 06:35 -0400, M. Adam Davis wrote: > On 6/28/07, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: > > I can remember reading about this a couple of years back, and cringing at the thought of it going wrong! Essentialy the system selects two gears at once, but there is some lost motion in the system and the first gear is deselected before this slack is "used up". > > I imagine that many engineers similarily cringed when the first > interference engines came out... Hehe, although I'm not a mech, I still cringe at the thought of what happens if that timing belt breaks... I've seen the results, they aren't pretty. TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist