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10 Short Videos #6209

10 Short Videos #6209

1. China spent $2 billion to catch this rocket
2. Fastest on Land vs Fastest in the Sky
3. WATERPROOF SHELLS #buckshot #shotgun
4. On Mars, Olympus Mons is so tall that its summit sits in air that's almost a vacuum.
5. Threading the needle! 🧵🚤 Depoe Bay channel does not play around.
6. What if your camera could fly? 👀 | Insta360 X5 & Antigravity A1
7. My Homemade Robot Arm Project
8. Control, Perspective, and Movement 🔥 DJI RS 5 + SDR Transmission
9. This video got over 17M views on IG. How many can we get here on YouTube? - transforming park bench
10. I'm Speeeed🔉⚡️ #cockerspaniel 

Biggest Lumber Producers

Biggest Lumber Producers

Home Prices Worldwide

Home Prices vs. Incomes

Polybius

Statue of Polybius, Alois Düll, 1899 (Vienna, outside the Parliament of Austria).

David Warren's post today prompted me to comment:

When society collapses, the collapse will likely take the internet with it and all that old printed matter, printed on paper, will become valuable again. It will become so valuable you might think that all the old booksellers and hoarders are working together to ensure the collapse of civilization, as they are the only ones who will profit from it. But that would be unfair, because everyone is working very hard on the collapse. I say that because everyone is sure the collapse is coming (probably not for ten years, and maybe not even for 100), everyone can see we are headed for the cliff, but it's not a sharp drop off, at least not right away. We've gone over the peak and now we are just past level and starting on a downhill slope, but there is no danger, at least in the immediate view, and we are cruising, going 60, top down, sun shining, things couldn't be better. But the collapse is coming, but nobody knows what to do to stop it. Wait, that's not right, everybody knows what to do, but nobody can get enough people together to actually do anything about it. A detailed view of the economic situation might be the place to start.

Turboglide Automobile Transmission

Why 2 Letters KILLED Chevrolet's MOST ADVANCED Transmission!
Muscle Car Masters

That's a nice story, but it doesn't satisfy my inner techno-geek. So we go looking for more.

Chevrolet Turboglide Transmission
Arpit Thakur

The diagram got me here, it shows up at the 12:12 mark and Arpit goes thru the diagram bit by tedious bit, and there's a more than a few bits. He's a little hard to understand, but he repeats himself and uses a pointer effectively. I dunno what the rest of the video is about.

Torque Converter – How Does It Work? (3D Animation)
CARinfo3d (En)

Nice, simplified explanation of how torque convertors work. I still wonder who came up with this idea, how they made the prototypes, and how they make them now. Probably won't be satisfied until I see the equations for fluid flow and that's probably pointless because I probably wouldn't understand them. Well, I probably could if I spent a couple months studying up. It would take me at least that long because I only get about an hour's worth of actual work done a day. Anyway, here's some Turboglide pictures.

Turboglide Simplified Schematic

Figure 41. Reverse Power Flow

Turboglide Cross Section

Key for Turboglide Cross Section:

1. Needle Bearing and Races

2. Converter Cover Hub Bushing

3. First Turbine Hub Bushing (Serviced)

4. Caged Needle Bearings

5. Converter Cover (Serviced as an Assembly with Item 7)

6. Third Turbine Assembly

7. Stator Assembly

8. Transmission Case

9. Second Turbine Assembly

10. First Turbine Assembly

11. Stator Rear Thrust Pod

12. Needle Bearing and Race

13. Converter Pump (Serviced as an Assembly with Item 4)

14. Front Pump Oil Seal

15. Front Pump Assembly

16. Frant Pump Cover (Stator Support)

17. Reverse Piston

18. Reverse Piston Spring

19. Thruster Washer (Selective)

20. Neutral Clutch Hub

21. Neutral Clutch Piston

22. Neutral Clutch Piston Return Spring (16)

23. Neutral Clutch Drive Plates (3) and Driven Plates (3)

24. Neutral Clutch Piston Return Spring Reluiner

25. Neutral Clutch Rear Drive Plate

26. Front Ring Gear Hub

27. Front Ring Gear

28. Front Planet Carrier Assembly

29. Front Sun Gear Front Bushings (Serviced)

30. Forward Clutch Freewheel Sprag Race

31. Forward Clutch Freewheel Sprag (Outer Sprag)

32. Rear Ring Gear Freewheel Sprag (Inner Sprog)

33. Front Sun Gear

34. Forward Piston

35. Forward and Brake Piston Support

36. Forward and Brake Piston Return Spring

37. Forward ond Brake Piston Return

Spring Seat 38. Brake Piston

39. Rear Ring Gear Assembly

40. Broke Drive Plates (3) and Reactor Plates (2 Inner and 2 Outer)

41. Rear Planet Carrier Assembly (includes Output Shaft)

42. Transmission Case Bushing (Serviced)

43. Rear Oil Pump Gear Spocer

44. Rear Oil Pump Assembly 45. Rear Oil Pump Drive Pin

46. Vent Assembly

47. Oil Deflector

48. Transmission Extension

49. Oil Seal Assembly

50. Speedometer Driven Gear

51. Speedometer Drive Gear

52. Rear Oil Pump Bushing (Serviced)

53. Needle Thrust Bearing Assembly

54. Valve Body Assembly

55. Needle Bearing Assembly

56. Oil Pressure Tube (2)

57. Retainer Ring

58. Forward Clutch Drive Plates (4) and Reaction Plates (4)

59. Forward Clutch Pressure Plate

60. Retainer Ring

61. Needle Bearing Assembly

62. Needle Bearing Assembly and Race

63. Front Planet Carrier Thrust Washer

64. Reverse Clutch Reaction Insert

65. Reverse Rear Pressure Plate

66. Reverse Drive Plates (3) and Reaction Plates (2)

67. Reverse Front Pressure Plate (Selective)

68. Oil Pan

69. Oil Seal Rings

70. Stator Support Shaft (Part of Stator Support)

71. Second Turbine Shaft (Part of Front Ring Gear Hub)

72. Third Turbine Shaft (Part of Neutral Clutch Hub)

73. First Turbine Shaft (Port of First Turbine Assembly)

Google was able to extract the next from a jpg of the original, poorly printed version.

Money

Not even Pink Floyd performed this intro live
sina-drums

Cool tune. I especially like the intro.