At 1:28 PM -0700 9/1/02, nelson miller wrote:
>Cutting the story much shorter, I eventually discovered that the
>freewheel threads on the new hub were left handed. Anybody have an
>explanation for that?
Mitzi and I conferred and you have one of the rare made for South of
the equator Maxi-Car hubs. These were only manufactured from
Wednesday the 13th of July, 1962 to Monday morning around 7:35 A.M.
in the shed out back. It was threaded that way to take advantage to
the Coriolis Effect on power transmission. I think these were only
available in Africa and South America since Aust. and N.Z. are
"down-under", thus upside down cancelling the effect of the reverse
thread. Last I heard the last shipment was sent the the Falkland
Islands with the last set of British troops.
enjoy,
Brandon"monkeyman" and Mitzi "elfie" Ives
Santa Barbara, Calif.
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