procon ten video

[DeWitt Harrison]

I don't know zip about the procon arrangement but I can imagine
how a small movement at one end of a cable could produce a
larger movement down the line. One would be a pulley system,
i.e. block and tackle, operated in reverse where the high force,
small displacement end of the system is the 'input.' Another would
be a cable connected to the short end of a lever arm in whch a
large force applied to the short end via the cable could produce
a large, smaller force movement at the end of the long arm.

DeWitt Harrison
'88 5kcstq

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:16:19 -0400
        Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com>

> >
http://www.adforum.com/creative_archive/2003/AW1136_WFA_A/reel_detail2.asp?ID=32963&TDI=VDUT5MrT&PAGE=1&ob=intlevel&ta=1860&tb=&awy=2003&AW_ID=1136
>
> That's very cool.  Matchbox cars are nice, too!
>
> Now, I'd like to see a car with a mechanism that does that.  Anyone have
> pictures from a dismantled parts car, or even a wreck showing the
> results?  It would be nice to know what models/years/markets this
> feature was actually implemented on.
>
> I am curious, however, as to how they manage to use a couple of cm of
> transmission movement (relative to car body) to pull the steering column
> far enough forward to matter?