Slide Throttles

[Todd Knighton]

SRavet at bangate.compaq.com wrote:

> OK, what is a slide throttle?  I thought it was simply a "cover" that
> slides over a "hole".  But that wouldn't tend to stick closed.  so what is
> it?
> 

	It is just a plate over a hole, but try this.  Put a ruler on the
ground and move it around, easy right.  now have someone stand on it, a
little more difficult.  Same idea, because of the great pressure
differential caused by turbo motors and supercharged motors on surge,
the plates have an enormous amount of pressure placed on them.  They
tend to deflect and stick in the tracks because the tracks are precision
machined for a good seal and no rattle in the vertical direction.  Apply
a bit of curvature in a linear track, uhnt wallah, we have schticking.

Todd Knighton
Protomotive Engineering