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Old 01-23-08 | 10:32 PM
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Ken Cox
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Originally Posted by mihlbach
Ken, your babble about prime numbers, gear inches, and tooth counts does not explain what was wrong with your Soma cog.
Babble, eh?

How nice.

That kind of talk just endears me to people.

Maybe we could have dinner some time.

In any event, I had some reluctance to name the Soma cog, because I might have gotten a bad one, and it seems wrong to take away from someone's livelihood over a chance event...and a lot of people read this forum.

Anyway, I had an out of round cog from Soma.

How could that happen?

Certainly not because Soma doesn't try to market round cogs.

I think an anomaly somehow slipped through the process.

I would think a computer makes these things, and computers never make mistakes, right?

In any event, just handling the various makes of cogs, the EAI cogs feel and look like higher quality.

Subjective, I know, but very real to me.

I regularly handle high-end machined parts, and the EAI cogs have that look and feel.

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Now I'll get a letter from Soma's attorneys telling me to either produce the allegedly out-of-round cog or retract my statement.

Can I shortcut the process by retracting my statement before I make it?

Post Script: I'll find the book that had explanation of the efficiency of greater numbers of teeth; actually, combined radii.

Last edited by Ken Cox; 01-23-08 at 10:35 PM. Reason: After thought.
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