Comment on Fluid gears rotate without teeth, offering new mechanical flexibility
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
While neat, I highly doubt you can get any notable amount of torque through this.
Comment on Fluid gears rotate without teeth, offering new mechanical flexibility
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
While neat, I highly doubt you can get any notable amount of torque through this.
Technus@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
It’s possible to design fluid couplings for torque. That’s what a torque converter in an automatic transmission does.
It’s not quite as elegant, of course, but still.