<VV> Popular-Science-May-1960 Corvair Article

Ron ronh at owt.com
Mon Mar 11 00:51:58 EDT 2013


The blades on a riding mower have a far higher rotary inertia than the 
little Corvair blower wheels.
RonH

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From: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
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> So, which lawn mowers have to overcome the inertia of that heavy steel fan
> (on the '60s and other EMs) to turn with that belt?
> Later, JR
>
>
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>>> Didn't the original belt system exhibit these problems
>>> during testing?
>>
>> Everyone does realize, don't they, that the belt routing is a common
>> industrial design, used since the thirties, or maybe earlier.  It is
>> still used on many riding lawnmowers even today.
>>
>> Bill Strickland
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