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View Full Version : Rotary sighting jtimbck2 09-24-2003, 09:38 AM I was sitting here at my desk at work when I looked over and saw a rotary (trochoid???) shape -- I just happened to have my digicam here with me, so I grabbed it and snapped a picture. Pretty cool, huh? Wing 09-24-2003, 09:54 AM LOL! Actually the best so far is the following.... At the Toronto meet last week (where we had 8 8's :) ) we went in for a beer and some wings. I order a plate of wings and it comes on a rotor plate! No joke! Round in the middle for the wings and trochoid outer shape. I ALMOST took the plate home! jdaled 09-24-2003, 09:59 AM I too am seeing rotor shapes everywhere now... last week I was in a Taco Bell, and looked at a nearby table where people had been sitting, and the marks left on the table by them picking up trays, and drinks and such left a rotor shaped set of lines on the table. It was crazy. Btw, I thought the trochoid shape was the "fat figure 8" that the describes the path taken by each apex of the rotor as it rotorates?? D. eclps0 09-24-2003, 02:08 PM in the mcdonalds drive tru theres a camera that looks like a rotary(trochoid). they have liek 4 of them i thought it was pretty cool. beacuse it has 3 indentions in teh camera housing for 3 apex just like a rotary . mikeb 09-24-2003, 05:14 PM you guys have good attention to detail I havent even my looking B-Nez 09-25-2003, 08:22 PM My favorite is still the picture of my bagels I posted a while back. Search for rotor sightings... Everyonr thought I was nuts back then, but the idea has resurfaced twice now...maybe i'm not so crazy after all...:D P00Man 09-25-2003, 08:42 PM or maybe were all stricken by the same disease... ill admit, i havent been looking ________ Lovely Wendie (http://www.lovelywendie99.com/) Gyro 09-26-2003, 11:03 PM . RX-GR8 09-26-2003, 11:09 PM lol carnut 09-28-2003, 09:57 AM Great, Gyro! Maybe David Hasselhoff (sp?) can run for governor of California, too! Or maybe KITT? "Turbo boost, Arnold!" sferrett 09-29-2003, 08:46 AM As far as I thought, "trochoid" is the shape of the chamber in which the rotor spins, not the shape of the rotor itself. A quick blast on dictionary.com gives this definition: tro·choid ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trkoid, trkoid) n. A curve traced by a point on or connected with a circle as the circle rolls along a fixed straight line. adj. also tro·choi·dal (tr-koidl, trk-oidl) Capable of or exhibiting rotation about a central axis. Permitting rotation, as a pulley or pivot. Which would tend to back up that concept. Someone who actually knows, please feel free to correct me... Simon. |