Recent content by AlphaJP7

Alright, I thought glycerine was fairly stable, but indeed there are many flavours of silicon oil with different viscosity and it's just a matter of experimenting. I have no "hands-on" feel for the viscosity required to prevent freewheeling. I was asking because I'm aso conceptualizing a...

That's actually a very cool idea. I was messing around with the idea of using a high cps liquid (in this case glycerine) in some way. Just an hypothetical question, how do these kind of fluids react to passing through a thin-holed wire mesh. I would imagine there would be some resistance, isn't...

Thanks for the input! I've tried searching for Rolls Royce patents for the center cap system unsuccessfully. Maybe they haven't patented it. I've gotten a pretty good gyst of how it works though.

Yeah, connecting it to the axle is out of question, I think I've got enough tools now to design a decent system. A shame I can't find any diagram for the Rolls Royce caps in particular. This is the one I'll end up going for. P.S.: Quite the preposterous proposition that I could improve on them...

Which regulations, if you mind? Litigious attack? This sounds very American, no offense because I deeply respect the country. Here in Europe there are no such regulations if you mean in the legal sense. And even then, these things don't end up in court. Or else BMW and Rolls Royce wouldn't sell...

Alright, at least now you give me a serious answer. You shall reap what you sow. Thusly, I will say that I do see your point but I don't consider it a meaningful offense to road safety. Not anymore than the joggers and we aren't telling pretty ladies not to go for a stroll all for the benefit of...

Do you mean distracting other drivers as in they will be looking at my center caps? That's like blaming the girl wearing the skirt for being harrassed. THEY should be focused on the road. If that's not what you meant and the problem really is the steady badges then we really need to find a way...

Yeah, in retrospect I don't think that idea would work because, once again, I have nothing that I can fixate to that doesn't rotate. In the scheme I drew the tension wires would attach to that black plate and that rotates just the same as the shaft due to inertia. I could use a ball bearing so...

Hello fellow members! First and foremost I'll start by saying I couldn't be farther from a Physics connoisseur, I barely remember high school Physics/Maths. I love to know about mechanical systems and I'm an avid DIYer though. I'm trying to design a floating center cap system for my car's...