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cpaulfell
Joined: 07 Dec 2011
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:21 pm
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| ruxpriencdiam wrote: | | But i have never heard of an "automatic gearbox"? |
Must be because you are not English :)
I think if I used the term Automatic Transmission I might not have lost my American friends along the way. |
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:45 pm
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| cpaulfell wrote: | | ruxpriencdiam wrote: | | But i have never heard of an "automatic gearbox"? |
Must be because you are not English :)
I think if I used the term Automatic Transmission I might not have lost my American friends along the way. |
You didn't lose this one :-)
Anything that the manufacturers says has gears in it is a gearbox in my book!
Doesn't matter if it is manually operated or works automatically on a hydraulically operated Planetary GEAR system, still has gears, and if my memory serves me right they are called Ring gear, Sun Gear and planet gears :-)
For anyone technically interested here is a good site
http://www.familycar.com/transmission.htm#Transmission%20Components |
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ruxpriencdiam
Joined: 07 May 2009
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Location: Third Stone from the Sun
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:48 pm
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| jeffbanke wrote: | | cpaulfell wrote: | | ruxpriencdiam wrote: | | But i have never heard of an "automatic gearbox"? |
Must be because you are not English :)
I think if I used the term Automatic Transmission I might not have lost my American friends along the way. |
You didn't lose this one :-)
Anything that the manufacturers says has gears in it is a gearbox in my book!
Doesn't matter if it is manually operated or works automatically on a hydraulically operated Planetary GEAR system, still has gears, and if my memory serves me right they are called Ring gear, Sun Gear and planet gears :-)
For anyone technically interested here is a good site
http://www.familycar.com/transmission.htm#Transmission%20Components |
Yeah but still they dont operate as true gears operate they require pressure to function whereas a regular gearbox just requires the gears and fluid. |
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:04 pm
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| ruxpriencdiam wrote: | | jeffbanke wrote: | | cpaulfell wrote: | | ruxpriencdiam wrote: | | But i have never heard of an "automatic gearbox"? |
Must be because you are not English :)
I think if I used the term Automatic Transmission I might not have lost my American friends along the way. |
You didn't lose this one :-)
Anything that the manufacturers says has gears in it is a gearbox in my book!
Doesn't matter if it is manually operated or works automatically on a hydraulically operated Planetary GEAR system, still has gears, and if my memory serves me right they are called Ring gear, Sun Gear and planet gears :-)
For anyone technically interested here is a good site
http://www.familycar.com/transmission.htm#Transmission%20Components |
Yeah but still they dont operate as true gears operate they require pressure to function whereas a regular gearbox just requires the gears and fluid. |
Come on Barry, your splitting hairs :-) they have teeth that engage other teeth on the other parts just like a manual box, only difference is that they are engaged all the time, where a manual gear is physically moved in and out of play. The computer in a car selects how the power is applied and and transmitted to the drive shaft in an automatic box, where the driver selects and moves the relevant gear in and out of play on a manual.
Anyway, in the majority of the world a gear box is a gear box because it has gears, we in the US can try as hard as we want force the rest of the world to conform to our terminology, but until all the older motor mechanics have died and are long gone, a larger part of the worlds population will call a gear box a gearbox no matter how it operates. :-)
I am not a fan of automatic transmissions anyway, they are less reliable, more complex, more prone to failure, etc, etc., and like I said I like to drive my vehicles, like to be in the right gear all the time, but then I grew up racing mini coopers in England in the 60's where you needed to be in the right gear to maximize performance.
If you are going to allow some computer to change gears for you, and park your car for you, read a newspaper, drink coffee, talk on the phone, why not ride on a train or a bus? |
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