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    Steering Wheel Mounted Accelerator Button

    PTT buttons for aircraft are meant to be mounted on yokes and, appropriately placed, may suffice for your purposes. See Link for various examples.
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    LPG fuel vehicle

    Try "en67 lpg" as your search terms in Google. At least two of the links found have the official EN67 spec available. I hope EN is not equivalent to SAE, where such things need to be purchased, apologies to moderators if this is so.
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    Source of obsolete D38999 connectors

    DigiKey and Mouser show numerous connectors of that spec.
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    Motorcycle sprocket tooth fractures

    Thanks to all for the interesting comments and links. Tmoose, the linked pdf you intended to send didn't. If you don't mind I'd like to have a look. Could you retry that? Here are 6 more images of the subject and related items...
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    Motorcycle sprocket tooth fractures

    I'm working on getting either better pictures or the item itself. A correction on the first post - this was not an OEM part. The OEM part has 15 teeth, this one has 14. A point was raised elsewhere that "less teeth works the chain/sprockets harder". I can find no objective, professional data...
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    Motorcycle sprocket tooth fractures

    This was coincidentally (and probably luckily) discovered while a Ducati 1098 was being routinely cleaned. There were no symptoms, noise and reportedly no abuse. Chain and rear sprocket were in good condition, i.e., not damaged at all. It looks like the damage on the 3 involved teeth were...
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    Air Fuel Ratios for NA Engines

    The US RX-8 Mazda rotary is factory mapped to go rather richer than stoich under certain operating conditions that are not high load (such as higher speed cruise) in order to keep the cat cool enough to last 80K miles. My point is that there are sometimes reasons other than optimum engine...
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    Sand Casting an air cooled head

    Try "DLMS metal" as your google search term.
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    Ideal AFR theory (modern 4cyl engines)

    I'm of the opinion that the best way to answer these questions is via empirical methods. It's really difficult to accurately model this stuff as there are way too many variables. Logging the best quality data you can for post analysis, starting in safe operating regimes and going where the data...
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    Machine vision NIR polycarbonate

    Googling IR + transmission + polycarbonate returns some data that may help you.
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    New Rotary Internal Combustion Engine

    That appears to be an attempt to combine all the potential deficiencies of 2 stroke piston engines, 4 stroke piston engines and the Wankel into one machine with bonus points for some new inefficiencies. I wonder if they're accepting investment money.....
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    Generic question on longevity of modern automotive engines at high load

    I know of a gentleman who powered a Cozy Mark IV aircraft with a Mazda rotary. As far as I know, his only semi-catastrophic failures (engine kept running but with no boost) were due to the stock turbo hot side wheel detaching itself from the shaft a couple of times. Apparently those turbos are...
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    Lambda O2 sensor modification to increase air fuel ratio and run leaner.

    There are numerous types of lambda sensors. The diagram you've posted is of the more useless variety, the narrow band sensor. It's only reliable, reproducible ability is to tell you which side of stoich you're at. It is totally unreliable at telling you how far off stoich you're at. Most of the...
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    lighter car leaf springs

    RE leaf springs not rusting to the failure point: There are a lot of owners of boat trailers in salt water service who would disagree with that premise. Even well rinsed after use you are lucky to get much past 3 or 4 years.
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    Blade diagram to explain what happen below and above rated wind speed (Wind Turbine)

    A 25.5 limit sounds suspiciously like a software issue - 255 = 0xFF.

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