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I still show some of these at school helps explain how things work the ***embly and stamping ones are my favorite the animations that GM had Disney and Fleischer studios do are also cool
This reminds me of my high school drafting cl*** in the late 1960's. The teacher was lazy and unimaginative, and the only thing we did all year was to technically draw a transmission that was out of an early 1950's pick-up truck. We started with the dis***embled transmission, taking measurements of all the parts as we drew them. The housing would have been the most difficult part but I don't think we ever got to that...it was just gears and shafts, all year long. I kept my drafting tools and they did get reactivated from time to time.
Hey JB, Nice article on the early transmissions…Ahhh…those were the movies we HAD to watch during the Automotive shop Mondays, before we got to work on our cars and projects. (Our teacher was a drag racing fanatic and who knows where he went over the weekend) Little did we know they had some importance…it was like sitting through the “Red Asphalt” movie in the Driver’s Ed Cl***. There wasn’t anything a teenage high school kid did not know or thought they knew. Ha! Thanks, Anthony, for keeping the flame alive, today… Our experience with those non-synchro transmissions came from driving an early Model A we found and thought it was going to be our first hot rod/drag race car in early 1957. But, first, we got it running and learned how to shift without killing the car. A few years later, a 49 VW sunroof coupe also had a non-synchro transmission and we had to “double clutch” through each gear shift. Jnaki Thank goodness for high performance clutches and “syncho-meshed” transmissions for later shifting smoothness… New words were learned, new techniques were also learned. So, the high school Automotive cl*** was an important step in our teenage years. This was one cl*** everyone liked in the high school curriculum. (besides the Jewelry-Crafts cl***… and lunch.)
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