by phil4 » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:41 pm
Digger is right about stiction I think.
My way of thinking about it.
If your car nose is 10cm off the ground, and you push it down... does it return to 10cm above the ground? If not, you've got stiction.
As far as I'm aware it's not caused by the dampers (which should do nothing more than slow movement), nor the springs... but the bellcrank bearings, which bind.
I think earlier iterations of the atom suffered more than current, and so I'd expect far less need for them, and as Digger has found out for us, not required with the TTX dampers.
Digger is right about stiction I think.
My way of thinking about it.
If your car nose is 10cm off the ground, and you push it down... does it return to 10cm above the ground? If not, you've got stiction.
As far as I'm aware it's not caused by the dampers (which should do nothing more than slow movement), nor the springs... but the bellcrank bearings, which bind.
I think earlier iterations of the atom suffered more than current, and so I'd expect far less need for them, and as Digger has found out for us, not required with the TTX dampers.