Description

Many students find it difficult to visualise the action of a differential when used as a means of providing a drive from the gearbox to each axle shaft while allowing independent motion between shafts.

This Differential Unit has been designed to demonstrate the action of:

Crown Wheel and Pinion rear axle drive and differential elements.

The teaching value of this unit is, however, not limited to it’s use for demonstration purposes only, but may also be used for simple experimental work in the laboratory. A pulley fitted with a protractor is secured to the input shaft, the output bevels are grooved and may be loaded individually or by means of a differential pulley arrangement so that students can determine and verify velocity ratios and torque distribution.

The Differential can be coupled to the Overdrive (Ref SD1:17) and/or Gearbox (Ref SD1:15) to represent a simple transmission system.

The unit may be wall mounted or mounted on the Universal Bench Mounting Frame (Ref SD1:10)