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- From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
- Subject: Re: B. Rohloff on Rohloff chains
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.222227.8088@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 22:22:27 GMT
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- king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:
- >[How can the non-round Rohloff holes help increase lateral flexability
- > without sacraficing torsional rigidity?]
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- In a normal chain the pin inside the hole has a slightly smaller radius
- of curvature than the hole. The contact point between pin and hole is
- small. As the hole deforms under load the curvatures can match better,
- but the deformation is driven by a point forces so the contact forces
- are still uneven.
-
- As I understand the Rohloff construction -- though I may, in USElessNET
- tradition be completely wrong -- the hole is roughly triangular with
- rounded points of a slightly smaller radius of curvature than the pin.
- The rounded points of the triangular hole deform slightly under load,
- ensuring a larger contact area between the pin and the hole.
- radius of curvature for the rounded corners of the triangular hole as
- the radius of curvature of the round pin
-
- The characterization as `triangular with rounded points' is a gross
- exageration to help form a mental image. As I read the original
- posting, the hole is, in fact, nearly round with three very short flat
- segments. That's the shape refered to as `trochide'.
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- Because the holes are non-round, the pin does not have the same degree
- of freedom in all directions. When you move a chain side-to-side the
- slack-side pin move straight back. When you twist a chain under load
- the slack side moves up. The non-round holes are supposed to have good
- freedom for straight back, not so good for twisting.
-
- That's my understanding of it, based entirely on the original post and
- a bunch of head-scratching. I've never tried a Rohloff chain.
-
- ;-D on ( On Roholoff chains? Freebasing chains? ) Pardo
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