[TowerTalk] Flexible coupler assembly

[Hector Garcia XE2K]

Guys:
   
  That part is very common in trucks  - semi or diesel big trucks-  also in the OFF road Race cars is used  to reduce the fatigue in the steering wheel.   there are many models for the American cars,  there in your local Diesel  yunk yard you can get and idea if you don't know the piece and get a model if you like to order New.
   
  is the same idea that the Ford use in the Steering wheel shaft,  open your hood and there is the basic donut ,  that think is 2 metal  pieces filled to form the donut with ruber  if break the contact will be there , you never  loose the  direction,.
   
  Hector
  

Keith Dutson <kdutson at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  The absorber does not reduce force. It merely distributes it over a period
of time thus reducing the maximum torque applied when the assembly
starts/stops.

In a car, the absorber works both for acceleration and deceleration.

73, Keith NM5G

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gary Schafer
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:17 PM
To: towerTALK at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Flexible coupler assembly

Just a thought: 
Does a shock absorber in the mast like this really take any stress off the
rotor gears? The shock absorber will wind up allowing the antenna to twist
further than it would without the shock absorber and have much more "travel"
when returning in the opposite direction thus increasing the force by
allowing more travel and the antenna to whip around more than without any
flexible joint.

The shock absorber works well in a car's drive line as the major force is in
one direction. 

73
Gary K4FMX

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