Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 12/03/2019 at 08:29 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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vondon302 > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 09:10

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Morning

I wonder how often the drive chain breaks or jumps off the sprocket on something like this.

ttyymmnn > vondon302 12/03/2019 at 09:12

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No idea.

benn454 > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 09:33

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 That's one guy who never has to worry about a flat.

MoCamino > vondon302 12/03/2019 at 09:34

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I was wondering how many fingers were lost to that sprocket/chain.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 09:39

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Something something “tiresome” pun something.

vondon302 > MoCamino 12/03/2019 at 09:40

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.5 per derailment.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > vondon302 12/03/2019 at 09:41

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Chain drive racecars used to straight-up kill people. Failures on this, though, would be less dramatic and depend more on maintenance. The people who’d know would be those farmers who operate a baler.

Jim Spanfeller > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2019 at 09:45

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It most likely has no power steering, so driving it probably gets tire-ing real quickly.

vondon302 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2019 at 09:48

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Yeah I'd imagine so.

It just looks so rickety.

Now that I look at it. It seems like it has one on the other side early posi?

Milky > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 09:54

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No shit. That company became Uniroyal and its still a problem for Detroit.

http://www.detroiturbex.com/content/industry/uniroyal/index.html

The only place between downtown and belle isle where the riverwalk doesn’t connect. Apparently its quite contaminated.

https://goo.gl/maps/wNsLspm3zgLo7nZc6

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > vondon302 12/03/2019 at 09:59

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Most likely a fixed diff on the chassis and what amounts to a kind of De Dion axle.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jim Spanfeller 12/03/2019 at 10:04

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Jokes aside, check this out:

https://www.shiawasseehistory.com/gmc.html

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 10:05

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Look what I found:

https://www.shiawasseehistory.com/gmc.html

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > vondon302 12/03/2019 at 10:07

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In fact, a chassis-mounted transaxle :

vondon302 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2019 at 10:07

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Thanks

TIL

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2019 at 10:08

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That’s really cool. I mean, does it get any more basic than this? A flat bed, an engine that you sit on, and a radiator. It was probably a bitch to steer. 

ttyymmnn > Milky 12/03/2019 at 10:09

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Lots of vacant lots in that Google satellite image...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 10:23

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It looks like it steered pretty easily, other than probably being like a tractor and requiring turn after turn after turn to get any direction change...

Also, as the engine was typically a two-stroke and the trans was in the rear, the engine over the front wheels wouldn’t be too miserably heavy. These things probably did okay in mud and soft roads.

Milky > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 10:31

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For sure, its Detroit. But not many cities have vacant 43 acre lots on the water  front.

user314 > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 10:52

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In 1911, Reliance Motor Truck was the first truck equipped with Pneumatic Tires. These were developed and built by the United States Nobby Fabric Pneumatic Truck Tires.

Ok, I love that name, very Exactly What It Says on the Tin .

U.S. Rubber still exists as Uniroyal , which TIL.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > user314 12/03/2019 at 11:05

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The tires of that age before modern vulcanization and tougher sidewalls had really taken off sometimes suffered from sidewall tears and other damage. For a very brief period, there were tire garters or tire gaiters sold that could be laced around the tire after deflating, then allowing reinflation without putting the tube in danger. It would put the wheel out of balance, but back then...

accordingto > ttyymmnn 12/03/2019 at 12:50

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OneSlowScion > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2019 at 13:45

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Chain drives on balers can be very reliable, especially i f you maintain them properly . My Dad has a baler from 1967 that still has all the original chain.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > OneSlowScion 12/03/2019 at 13:53

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Good to know. Assuming that this truck would perhaps have about twice the annual duty cycle of a baler (?), it ought to hold up pretty well properly maintained.