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What an amazing video for its time. I'm surprised they were do all these sorts of animations of arrows and power flowing on the gears without any cgi. Looks lik
by ghoomketu 4y ago
What an amazing video for its time. I'm surprised they were do all these sorts of animations of arrows and power flowing on the gears without any cgi. Looks like it was hand drawn on a sheet of transparent plastic and added on later? No idea but the way they explained it was cool as heck. Learned something new today and I'll be more mindful of what is happening in my car when changing gears now!
- sokoloff 4y agoAgree on the video comments. This video shows unsynchronized, straight-cut gears and your car has two improvements over that: helical cut gears (much quieter) and synchronizers to aid (significantly) in gear shifting. Except for reverse, in a street trans design newer than 50 years old, the gears themselves are constantly meshed and there are internal rings which lock and unlock the gears from the shaft they ride on. The synchronizers are softer metal rings that help to guide these rings into meshing as they turn past each other. This video shows the parts well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXsRfbOiBhE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXsRfbOiBhE
- m348e912 4y agoAnd then there's PDK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGUVLBhzOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGUVLBhzOE
- amock 4y agoThe video mentions synchronizers and shows helical cut gears at https://youtu.be/JOLtS4VUcvQ?t=409 https://youtu.be/JOLtS4VUcvQ?t=409 .
- sokoloff 4y agoRight you are [and my mistake/have an upvote]. When they made the cutaway back the guy shifting gears, I mentally took that as "ok, they've well covered the topic and this is just an outro", so stopped watching there.