[Land-speed] Spins and Things...

Skip Higginbotham saltrat at pahrump.com
Sun Jun 14 10:53:50 MDT 2009


Jack,

I have the model...it's the front part of the chassis on the weld 
fixture (completing the cockpit air conditioning installation). The 
effects are easy to see but the loads are not easy to quantify. Mayf 
is helping with that. We'll see what all this shows.

Skip





At 09:29 AM 6/14/2009, NT788 at comcast.net wrote:

>Skip
>
>It's now time to make a model. A simple rectangular tread using 
>telescoping brass  tubing, allowing the axle to rotate. Pick your 
>favorite kingpin incl. with reversable offset wheels on sliding spindle axles.
>
>Scrub changes WB and exagerates caster.
>
>Jack
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat at pahrump.com>
>To: drmayf at mayfco.com, "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
>Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:50:32 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Spins and Things...
>
>Not done yet.......let's talk about "scrub". I personally know little
>about the effects other than it may not be good and zero isn't good either.
>
>Skip
>
>
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>At 06:05 PM 6/12/2009, drmayf wrote:
> >Wow, aren't you guys happy that I asked the question on spins and
> >things. We now have two polarized camps, lol. Caster, no Caster. the
> >pits will be divided into two camps. For and agin.... And I will
> >probably have to pit in Oklahoma, lol....
> >
> >mayf
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