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Mini Marcos |
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Original design sports coupe |
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Marcos Cars |
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1965 to 1981 |
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| The Mini Marcos was a pretty crude affair compared to todays cars but proved extremely popular because of it's simple construction and very cheap sub £200 kit price. Well over 1,000 kits were sold in it's run up to the early 80's
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Worm gear
Worm and worm gearA worm gear, or worm wheel, is a type of gear that engages with a worm to greatly reduce rotational speed, or to allow higher torque to be transmitted. The image shows a section of a gear box with a bronze worm gear being driven by a worm. A worm gear is an example of a screw, one of the six simple machines.ExplanationA gearbox designed using a worm and worm-wheel will be considerably smaller than one made from plain spur gears and has its drive axes at 90° to each other. With a single start worm, for each 360° turn of the worm, the worm-gear advances only one tooth of the[Read More]..... |
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