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In the old days, in the factory shop manuals, and other printed documents, they were often called flywheels. Or even “automatic flywheels“ sometimes.
The word flex plate was already in use, but the official word of flywheel was still used by many.
Probably the old school engineers still active at the time.
From memory I’d have to say this practice extended up until the late 60s. But the it might have ended before or after that. I wasn’t paying strict attention to it, or when the documents I was reading were actually written, because I had heard it that way so often it didn’t seem odd to me.
And yes, I know that a “flywheel“ has the function of storing energy, or smoothing pulses, from its mass.
But it didn’t seem out of line, at the time, to call a little thin piece of metal that had virtually no weight compared to a typical flywheel, a flywheel.
The word flex plate was already in use, but the official word of flywheel was still used by many.
Probably the old school engineers still active at the time.
From memory I’d have to say this practice extended up until the late 60s. But the it might have ended before or after that. I wasn’t paying strict attention to it, or when the documents I was reading were actually written, because I had heard it that way so often it didn’t seem odd to me.
And yes, I know that a “flywheel“ has the function of storing energy, or smoothing pulses, from its mass.
But it didn’t seem out of line, at the time, to call a little thin piece of metal that had virtually no weight compared to a typical flywheel, a flywheel.
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I have an engineering background so that word was in my mind
