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From: 380VRX on 3 May 2010 18:10
for designing the balance shaft system that porsche used in their 944
engines
From: Crash Lander on 3 May 2010 19:47
380VRX wrote:

> for designing the balance shaft system that porsche used in their 944
> engines

For sharing the ugly car spotlight with them?
Crash Lander

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From: hippo on 3 May 2010 20:33
380VRX wrote:
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> for designing the balance shaft system that porsche used in their 944
> engines
>
>

Porsche pay a licensing fee - as do Fiat group & Saab. That's probably
thanks enough, but I wonder if Dr Lanchester still gets any recognition
for his original balance shaft design patented in 1904 and used quite
extensively since then? Cheers

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From: Bernd Felsche on 3 May 2010 23:35
380VRX <mmal380vrx(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>for designing the balance shaft system that porsche used in their 944
>engines

It's a Lanchester balancer. Common solution to cancelling out some
rotating imbalance. Invented in 1904.

Look it up.
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From: The Raven on 4 May 2010 06:38
"380VRX" <mmal380vrx(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> for designing the balance shaft system that porsche used in their 944
> engines

Yeah, and Mitsubishi were the first.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_shaft


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