Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
Damn you, Sir Isaac Newton!
While working on a cone-type diff for a board member yesterday, I used the standard method of assembling the diff itself by aligning the cone and side-gear splines with my spare axle shafts. I use one axle as an assembly stand, in fact.
As usually happens in this arrangement, the axles got stuck in the diff and had to be worked out. The first axle came out easily enough, and I thought the diff had slid off the second one (the stand) when I lifted up the diff. It hadn't, and when it got about a foot or so off the ground, the axle slid out and fell, right onto my left foot.
An object at rest, whence acted upon by an outside force--in this case, gravity--will accelerate until it breaks your big toe. [smilie=e:
While working on a cone-type diff for a board member yesterday, I used the standard method of assembling the diff itself by aligning the cone and side-gear splines with my spare axle shafts. I use one axle as an assembly stand, in fact.
As usually happens in this arrangement, the axles got stuck in the diff and had to be worked out. The first axle came out easily enough, and I thought the diff had slid off the second one (the stand) when I lifted up the diff. It hadn't, and when it got about a foot or so off the ground, the axle slid out and fell, right onto my left foot.
An object at rest, whence acted upon by an outside force--in this case, gravity--will accelerate until it breaks your big toe. [smilie=e: