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With a sketch detailing a fault where a ball hammers into its seat on a seat damper.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 11\3\  03-page448
Date  24th July 1931 guessed
  
cross steering
end view of contact
foul mark of Ball

This Ball hammers into seat and sticks causing an after movement of the arm of approx 1/1" to 1.500" before load is reached. This occurs after pushing the arm up and reverse quickly. We found this phenomenon on both seat dampers.

J.H.H.
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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