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The thing to remember about a CVT is that it's held together by a rubber band. Materials engineering has gotten very good at making stronger rubber bands that d
by slurry 13y ago
The thing to remember about a CVT is that it's held together by a rubber band. Materials engineering has gotten very good at making stronger rubber bands that don't snap under hard use, but the application you have in mind sounds like an awful lot of wear and tear for a rubber band to undergo.
And, if the whole setup is tuned very specifically on the CVT working properly and the rubber band goes snap, that could be a bad thing.
- AmVess 13y agoCVT's in automobiles rely primarily upon metal chains for drive, not rubber bands.
- bliti 13y agoThey are sort of metallic rubber bands.
- Gravityloss 13y agoThere's also these toroidal Centroid continuously variable transmissions. But they rely on friction and have small contact surfaces. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cvt3.htm http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cvt3.htm