Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:50:29 +0000 (UTC) From: amesnopsamrak.demon.co.uk (Andrew Stephenson) Subject: Re: Seatbelt Locking Problem
In article <crhW9.16267$M7.1649058nopsaml1.home.nl> mhnopsamere.net "MH" writes: > > This happens in two cases: when the car is (1) accelerating (as > > in a crash) or (2) on a slope > > Then why does it also happen if I pull on the belt with a quick > pull, the car standing still (no deceleration or acceleration) > on my horizontal driveway? Probably centrifugal forces. Those disk surfaces will roughen slowly as the mechanism ages, or the balls will. Or they were never perfectly smooth. Either way, spinning the disk connected to the belt reel will move the balls, flinging them outwards, so causing at least a semi-lockup. Keep in mind that I said I was citing an old memory of something that may well have changed. -- Andrew Stephenson
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