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Date:         Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:33:42 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: The Thompson Coupling
Comments: To: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <86476e250712032114l5c716842w2cd262a101e7048b@mail.gmail.com>
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Yeah, something like that "Might" be the answer to grenading CV joints when trying to do wheelies in a turbo charged Subie SVX Vanagon ... but I really think it would just serve to point out what the next weakest link is. Heheheheheh

Mike Houlton, Maine

Loren Busch wrote: > For all the reasons Mike mentions and some others this seems to fall under > the heading of "Elegant Solution to a non existent problem". Cost of > manufacturing will limit the market to very special applications, it isn't > going to replace the CV joint as we know it today. It almost meets the > criteria to be qualify for "Just because it can be done doesn't mean it > should be done". >


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