#torque

2026-02-04

Paper alert from @UAFunMorph!
PhD researcher Cas Jorissen just published a chapter of his #PhD in Journal of Experimental Biology on torque–frequency trade-offs in muscle-driven lever systems 💥

Alternating contractions of antagonistic #muscle pairs can produce rapid cyclical movements—but systems adapted for high static #torque are expected to move more slowly. Cas tested how fibre type, muscle size, moment arms & inertia shape this trade-off 💪

Read more here: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250733

Tally MichelleTallyMichelle4@c.im
2026-01-31
Dendrobatus AzureusDendrobatus_Azureus@bsd.cafe
2026-01-30

A brand new cycling cassette nine speed, size 11 40 or 11 42, which I use for my Racing Machines. You always swap out / replace the cassette and the chain because they are married to each other.

Chain wear is monitored through a special tool. Nine speed chains have a tighter tolerance in comparison to eight speed chains. The amount of torque required to put the cassette on the rear hub is fourty newton meters

The photograph was composed in 85F warming light

#Cycling #training #torque #cassette #ThreadedRodsForBeginners #chain #technology #MTB

2026-01-16

Movies of the day (4/8) 🎬 Torque(2004) 🎬 Fireheart(2022) 🎬 Along Came Polly(2004) 🎬 Notorious(2009) © TMDB #Torque #Fireheart #AlongCamePolly #Notorious #Action #Animation #Comedy #Drama #Family #History #Music #Romance #Movie #MovieOfTheDay #OnThisDay #TMDB

Movie poster for TorqueMovie poster for FireheartMovie poster for Along Came PollyMovie poster for Notorious
Radio AzureusRadioAzureus
2026-01-10

Keeping your Corpus healthy is vital to the life of your biological System.

I've clocked five hours on that day, of course with regular breaks.

There is a fantastic reason why my Corpus feels and acts much younger than my physical rounds along Sol

2025-12-09

Then, of course, the mechanic who came out saw a middle-aged, middle-class white dude, and so he assumed I had all kinds of Knowledge and Expertise I Do Not Have.

"Well, THERE'S yer problem. Ya got a bad #hickendorffer #solenoidal relay to yer pickle-dipple feed enforcer. Unless ya got a #merble fleegle flange reducer, yer #mingtinglingle ain't gonna spark up yer #Torque twaddler."

Sir, I am a tweedy academic, despite how I look. All I know is "car no go vroom vroom."

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-11-10

Given that we'll unlikely get @EUCommission to abolish #Spyware like #eCall from #cars I propose that instead, manufacturers need to look outside that impractical envelope if they want to build #EVs (even #BEVs ffs!) that people can actually afford by focussing on other Vehicle classes.

  • I know #L2e may be deemed too restrictive at a deadweight of 270kg, 4kW output [measured on the wheels], 45km/h tops and 1+1 capacity even tho this will be sufficient for most trips from #suburbia to #downtown in car-centric shitholes like #LA during #RushHour but I digress...

  • #L5e removes the weight limitations (unlike #L6e & #L7e which only allows #batteries to be discounted from it's 425kg/450kg-600kg max deadweight) and keeps things at a reasonable 15kW output [system output] which is almost precisely 1/3 of my car but with #ElectricVehicles there's way more #torque and thus #acceleration, which is what makes a vehicle actually feel fast and zippy, so it should be on-par if not feel faster given that #Autobahn segments without speed limits are an exception and noone in their right mind expects a sub-€10k PLV to be cushy like an Audi A4.

  • Also for fuck sake give us a goddamn #CCS2 #charging socket on the vehicle not just on €13k+ luxury scooters but on like everything because that's an #EU standard and every actual #ChargingStation should support that. If necessary make it a single-phase charging thing if that's the only way possible!

#ElectricCars #EV #BEV #AntiEnshittificationAction #AntiEnshittification #Enshittification

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-10-12

That being said, that efficiency is beatable if we - like #Volkswagen - stretch the rules and don't go by EC Vehicle Class M1, but #L5e or even #L2e, because then a lot of mandatory stuff just falls away and the small power envelope of 4-15kW [on the wheels ] is not that little if we look at #Diesel and espechally #electric powertrains, as for anything besides long distrance & highway use, low-speed acceleration and deceleration is more relevant and that is dependent on #torque (and tire grip).

  • Which is why #Bonn has a shitton of #HybridCars for #Taxis because when the average trip is less than 10km and the average speed below 30km/h (with top speeds rarely reaching 50), it's more important to safely and quickly advere to traffic lights and -flow than "make speed indicator go brr!"...
2025-09-18

couldn't find a definite source, happy to attribute if anyone knows.

I don't know how they did this, maybe computer generated? file date 2014 so it isn't AI. Some kind of swirl effect or whatever, and I think it's effective to express some kind of experience, I'm sort of abstractly confused and trying to focus and get back on track today. I like the bright colors on a black background, I think that always looks cool.

#art @art #cranky #twist #torque #radiate #focus

these are bright liquid colors that seem to have been twisted or swirled without blending, so that the pools of color have been stretched and bent, mostly around a focus point in the upper right
2025-07-31

A M3 screw was lost from this KT LCD4 #ebike #display.

It was fixed~ with a wood screw. Sermon time.

Learned from my pa long ago the diff between screws. My pa also had a device for making screws (or fixing the thread on a screw) and I saw, at least once, how difficult making/fixing a thread on a screw is.

We have a jar with IKEA bits. I got myself Allen keys & a screwdriver, estimated screws and found the proper size after some fiddling. #Fixed properly.

What is N.m? #torque.

2025-07-28

How much torque can I get from this inside-out two-stage planetary gearbox? Find out in Tuesday's YouTube video - it's part 1 of a new walking machine I can ride on!

#mechanical #gearbox #3dprinting #torque #testing #walkingmachine

A man looks at a weird gearboxA weird gearbox
Dendrobatus AzureusDendrobatus_Azureus@bsd.cafe
2025-07-03

By now everybody knows that I'm a PPE freak. ANSI Z87.1 EN388 cut level 5 are all parameters I know by heart.

You have to, when you work with torque wrenches, to fasten threaded rods, that can go all the way up to 3000 Newton Meters, you work with rotating and drilling machines then can go all the way up to 10000 RPM / DPS with just A relative Small Guard surrounding about half of the tool, ride trucks with multiple trailers, ride many different types of race machines, ...

In this video you will learn Basic and Advanced to steps for using grinders, in a PPE safe environment.

I myself avoid those small grinders that go to 12000 RPMs I would rather use a huge heavy duty grinder that goes just six and a half thousand RPM. Lower RPM means relative safety, of course that also means more torque per revolution

#PPE #torque #Safety

youtube.com/watch?v=znAncIMSxQ

The image shows a YouTube video titled "The Welder's Guide to Right-Angle Grinder Safety" by Weld.com, which has 8,874 views and 341 likes. The video features a man in a workshop setting, wearing a checkered shirt, a cap, and safety glasses, standing in front of a blue tool cabinet. The video's channel, Weld.com, has 1.1 million subscribers. Below the video title, there are options to add to playlist, play in background, open in browser, download, and share. The video has two comments: one from "[@]seabreezecoffeeroasters7994" praising the content, and another from "[@]joebloe9901" sharing a personal experience about safety. The time on the phone is 19:54, and the battery is at 74%.

 Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.219 Wh
Dendrobatus AzureusDendrobatus_Azureus@bsd.cafe
2025-06-22

Even though it doesn't happen often, from time to time I ride with a cyclist who is dedicated to cycling with a passion.

This ride had taken us to a Riverside where a nice bank of mist was manifest. The screen cap of the cycling meter was somewhere in between the ride...

@stefano

#Cycling #training #torque #PPE

The photograph shot by an amateur, shows two passionate cyclists near a body of water, with a streetlight illuminating the scene. The person in the foreground is wearing a red motorcycle racing suit with "SONY MUSIC STUDIO" and "ANCOTOPROS" written on it, along with a red helmet and blue gloves, and is interacting with a Android phone taking a serene photograph of the other side. The second person, standing behind, is dressed in a dark blue cycling outfit with a green logo and a black cap, smiling and holding a phone. The background features a calm water surface reflecting the trees and sky, with a brick wall and steps leading down to the water. The sky is overcast, and the overall lighting suggests it is either early morning.

Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.855 WhThe image displays a detailed cycling activity tracking interface on a smartphone screen. The top section shows the time as 01:32, with a temperature of 24°C and a battery level of 86%. The main display features a large clock showing 01:32:51, with elevation data indicating a descent of -51 meters over a distance of 5 meters. The power output graph shows a fluctuation of -57 watts over a distance of 97 meters. The speedometer at the bottom shows a current speed of 3.8 km/h, with a maximum speed of 39.3 km/h. The total distance covered is 50,194 km, with a total calorie burn of 1,148.6 kcal. The heart rate is 197 bpm, and the cadence is 86 RPM. The interface also includes icons for navigation, settings, and a menu, with a red button labeled "Bike 1" at the bottom.

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🌱 Energy used: 0.248 Wh

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