Gearbox - weight ???

[geoff]

Actually Victor you are another 4 Kgs stronger than you thought !!

Confession time - as my gearbox is in bits I missed a small tub of parts and forgot to add onto the scales the intermediate transfer gear plus bearings and shaft.

So I must revise my gearbox weight :


A 1958 gearboxbox to include transfer box and drive flanges but no external gear levers weighs 58.25 Kgs or 128.4 Lbs

[diffwhine]

Which according to my extremely useful unit conversion app I've just downloaded is 291,250 carats...

Thank you. An interesting discussion even if I did mix up my units. Considerably lighter than I thought. Even a 0ne Tonne box won't be a lot heavier, so it was a good exercise. All credit to the Weightwatchers scales.

[Exile]

It is a known phenomenon that gearboxes get heavier as you get older.


I have recently tested this theory, in person.....

[diffwhine]

I'll second that - I've just moved 4 in a boiling hot container this afternoon. Definitely heavier than they used to be.