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- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: Bofors 40mm AA in WW2
- Message-ID: <BxvFLG.8z1@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Summary: Why the front sprockets?
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
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- References: <BxM62r.5B8@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:36:52 GMT
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- From mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
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- In article <BxM62r.5B8@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, Peter Shyvers <pshyvers@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com> writes:
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- > Anyone know if what I recall is true: I seem to remember that the Tiger (I)
- > didn't have direct-drive to the front sprockets. Instead, the engine drove
- > a generator, and the drive sprockets were powered by electric motors.
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- Why are the front sprockets driven instead of the rear? I would think
- that would put the entire length of the track under tension instead of
- just the lower half, require more machinery to carry the power forward,
- and make the mesh-and-release of the track with the sprocket more vulnerable
- to mechanical stress from being shaken as the front of the track rides over
- the rough ground.
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- Obviously tank builders know something I don't.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
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- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
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