Tony9r

Just here > . Been looking but can't find one

In 1994 Japanese researchers at Nippondenso Co., Ltd. fabricated a 1/1000th-scale working electric car.2351,2352 As small as a grain of rice, the microcar was a 1/1000-scale replica of the Toyota Motor Corp's first automobile, the 1936 Model AA sedan (Fig. 2.1). The tiny vehicle incorporated 24 parts, including tires, wheels, axles, headlights and taillights, bumpers, a spare tire, and hubcaps carrying the company name inscribed in microscopic letters, all manually assembled using a mechanical micromanipulator of the type generally used for cell handling in biological research (Chapter 21). In part because of this handcrafting, each microcar cost more to build than a full-size modern luxury automobile. The Nippondenso microcar was 4800 microns long, 1800 microns wide, and 1800 microns high, consisting of a chassis, a shell body, and a 5-part electromagnetic step motor measuring 700 microns in diameter with a ~0.07-tesla magnet penetrated by an axle 150 microns thick and 1900 microns long. Power was supplied through thin (18 micron) copper wires, carrying 20 mA at 3 volts. The motor developed a peak torque of 1.3 x 106 N-m (mean 7 x 107 N-m) at a mean frequency of ~100 Hz (peak frequency ~700 Hz), propelling the car forward across a level surface at a top speed of 10 cm/sec. Some internal wear of the rotating parts was visible after ~2000 sec of continuous operation; the addition of ~0.1 microgram of lubricant to the wheel microbearings caused the mechanism to seize due to lubricant viscosity. The microcar body was a 30-micron thick 20-milligram shell, fabricated with features as small as ~2 microns using modeling and casting, N/C machine cutting, mold etching, submicron diamond-powder polishing, and nickel and gold plating processes. Measured average roughness of machined and final polished surfaces was 130 nm and 26 nm, respectively. The shell captured all features as small as 2 mm on the original full-size automobile body. Each tire was 690 microns in diameter and 170 microns wide. The license plate was 10 microns thick, 380 microns wide and 190 microns high. :o :o

Quantum Physics... but it mentions a car... The difference is that the common laws of physics begin to deteriorate on small scales. For example, Nippendenso (Japan Electric) built a car that's only half a millimeters long. One could easily mistake it for a grain of rice if not for its gold color. At the scale of 1 to 1000, physics is already changing. Oil would now gum up the engine, and the tires wouldn't have enough traction to move the car... Drat, tea time

Welcome to the club mate :winky: Either you are a VERY lucky youngster, or a late starter to have a Lexus as your first car My first car was my grandads 1978 Ford Fiesta 1.1L My newest car I've ever owned was/is 8 years old... my lucious Lexus :P

All the best mate... nearly missed it :winky:

Sorted :P :winky:

That name has just cracked me up!!! BTW Welcome to the club :winky:

Welcome to the "Pleasure Dome" :P Be sure to book your place at the JAE :winky:

Boots

To be able to fly... preferably without the tights & cape though

Neckerchief

Doors

Knee down... nah, bike down... yup

All the best guy's :winky:

Ugly

Valley

All the best mate :winky:

Congratulations guy's :winky:

Won't it fit in our GS's Austin

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Strip

There was one - the orange coloured car with the Evo type rear spoiler ← I recall an orange car, but didn't think it was a GS... was it a Mk 2? I wonder if I saw you Mike... so many faces, but no names. I think it would have been a good idea to have a LOC id tag to wear with a blank space to fill in our names/handles... what do you rekkon Admin - with JAE coming up I'm sure a small charge to us would be worth looking into for a simple id card to wear

Would've been nice to see a GS on the track

The London meet is ......... July 10th .............. ;) ← I'd forgotten all about that :duh: , going there too :winky:

Leave "ALL" the kids at home