What is a slip-in-tube drive shaft and is it suitable for use in bicycles?

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The slip-in-tube drive shaft is a collapsible design consisting of a tube within a tube, resembling a telescope. This type of drive shaft differs from one-piece and two-piece designs, where the former is a solid metal bar and the latter consists of two shafts connected by a joint. Suitable materials for drive shafts must possess adequate torsional rigidity to prevent failure under torque. While theoretically applicable, slip-in-tube drive shafts are not commonly used in bicycles.

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What is slip in tube drive shaft ? How it is different from other drive shafts i.e1-piece and 2-piece drive shaft?And what is suitable material of drive shaft ,can we use shaft in bicycle ?
 
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1 piece driveshaft is basically a long metal bar or tube that transfers the rotational motion.

2 piece is 2 shafts that are connected by a universal or constant velocity joint.

The slip in tube is basically a collapsable driveshaft. So a tube within a tube (kind of like a telescope).

Suitable materials for driveshafts depends on the torque transmission, it'll have to have a torsional rigidity large enough not to twist itsself apart or collapse. Driveshafts can be used in a bicycle, but I've never seen one in real life.
 
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