May 4th, 2005

Double clutching

General, by Donncha.

I didn’t know what Paul on #linux was going on about, so I looked it up: double clutching for dummies. Lots of info, and technical details.

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Responses to “Double clutching”

  1. syncromesh is NOT a type of clutch it is a type of transmission, one without “synchronizers” which allow smooth shifting “synchros” as they are called are modern equiptment although with semis that have so many gears they don’t do a very good job

  2. Person,

    Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply it /is/ a clutch. “Uses friction, as a clutch does,” would have been better wording possibly. Read my actual blog entry, there are links to detailed explanations of synchromesh.

  3. Actually, you are all right. You are also a bunch of homos.

  1. Paul Jakma's Weblog (,May 5, 2005)

    double-declutching and synchromesh

    Donncha ,

    That link you found explains double (de-)?clutching pretty well. It’s required on very old cars (pre-WWII usually) and on trucks (possibly still?) which do not have synchromesh gearboxes . Synchromesh is essentially a type of clutch:…

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