"Iowna Uass" <iownauass@gmail.com> wrote in
news:KQWFm.15106$Hn5.2920@newsfe23.iad:

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> "Tegger" <invalid@invalid.inv> wrote in message
> news:Xns9CABCCEAA520tegger@208.90.168.18...


>> with new chain technology. Silent chains (AKA inverted-tooth chains)
>> wear at a fraction of the rate that the old beefed-up bicycle chains
>> did.
>
>
> Apparently the technology is not that new, one of the results in
> google is a scan of a page from Rankin Kennedy C.E. (1912). The Book
> of the Motor Car. Caxton.
>
> It took automakers almost a hundred years to make use of this type of
> chain? Bizzare....



I'll bet silent chains were either very expensive or had other issues which
made it unsuitable for automotive application. Automakers took advantage of
just about every other mechanical and metallurgical advance from 1912 until
now.


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