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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 108501" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>No problem with a disagreement Vic. It is only by exchanging ideas and experiences that progress is made. I wish you well with your experiments. However, I do have one problem concerning your ideas about the Vincent ESA shortening the life of the chain. I am not going to defend the design of the ESA but it is worth noting that when John Emmanuel used a stroboscope to investigate the working of the ESA he found that it moved rapidly up to the maximum travel in one direction when under load and then immediately to maximum movement in the other direction when on the overrun. The larger number of springs used in the Australian design of ESA had a different effect, discovered by Dick Sherwin. He used that ESA on his oversized twin with a sidecar fitted. Later dismantling showed that only a small amount of the potential movement was being used despite the extra power from the engine and the extra load of the heavy sidecar. The solution was to remove some of the springs, after which, most of the potential movement was being used. It is entirely possible that the design of ESA which you like would be better but the Vincent design can work with a little tweaking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 108501, member: 456"] No problem with a disagreement Vic. It is only by exchanging ideas and experiences that progress is made. I wish you well with your experiments. However, I do have one problem concerning your ideas about the Vincent ESA shortening the life of the chain. I am not going to defend the design of the ESA but it is worth noting that when John Emmanuel used a stroboscope to investigate the working of the ESA he found that it moved rapidly up to the maximum travel in one direction when under load and then immediately to maximum movement in the other direction when on the overrun. The larger number of springs used in the Australian design of ESA had a different effect, discovered by Dick Sherwin. He used that ESA on his oversized twin with a sidecar fitted. Later dismantling showed that only a small amount of the potential movement was being used despite the extra power from the engine and the extra load of the heavy sidecar. The solution was to remove some of the springs, after which, most of the potential movement was being used. It is entirely possible that the design of ESA which you like would be better but the Vincent design can work with a little tweaking. [/QUOTE]
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