Too Much Vorce...Part Two!
In my last post, I described how my new engine had destroyed the splines that drive the rear wheels. I'm midway in repair now and decided to research the wheel. I must have once known, but had forgotten, that a wheel is not one of the 6 simple machines. A wheel and axle is! So, I don't have a wheel problem, I have an axle problem! (for High Anxiety fans "It's not height I'm afraid of, it's parents!)". In this case, my wheel nearly fell off without it's axle! That clarifies the definition for me! Anyway, broken is broken. So, we begin repairs. It took many hours of measurements to arrive at this blueprint. This is also a lot of Aluminum to remove! In fact, there has not been so much Aluminum in the lathe bucket since the rivet checker project from 1997(?). At least it's going to the scrapyard (about which I wrote a story as a teen) so it will get reused. Aluminum is energy intensive to make but very easy ...
