Talk:Drive shaft

message: Could someone add some information (if possible with pictures), on the difference between a keyed shaft and a splined shaft? Wiki-uk 12:05, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Difference between a keyed shaft and a splined shaft

message: I just removed "*Loss of power" from the bicycle driveshaft list of disadvantages, since this makes no logical sense.  There are already several statistics listed, and 94% efficiency vs. 75-97% efficiency is not a consistent loss, comparatively, using these numbers.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.6.72.92 (talk • contribs).
* The disadvantages are actually just the advantages to the Chain, not the actual disadvantages of the driveshaft. Looks like someone was biased to the chain.--201.132.16.215 (talk) 17:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bicycle driveshaft

message: The article states: "This is a favoured design where the torque is biased to the front wheels to give car-like handling..." And when you channel more torque to the rear wheels you get what? Boat-like?--Psirus1988 (talk) 16:05, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Car-like handling???

message: I don't get the description:
"Drive shafts are carriers of torque: they are subject to torsion and shear stress, equivalent to the difference between the input torque and the load."
Am I missing something, or isn't the input torque equal to the load (except for very minor losses in the universal joints)?
The input torque IS the torque in the shaft - isn't it?
Mfhall (talk) 21:28, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Only under static conditions, however, the driveshaft is more often in a dynamic state then a static state. Wizard191 (talk) 15:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Difference between input torque and load?

message: At Automobile layout we have a difference of opinion about whether a prop shaft or drive shaft connects the engine to the rear wheels in a RWD car. The difference of opinion seems to be based on these two sentences in this article (my underlining):
I would like clarification of a few things:
#Does "In British English" apply to both sentences or only the first.
#Can we say that a prop shaft can connect a front engine to a rear transaxle (ie is the term prop shaft strictly tied to gearboxes at the engine end). Thanks.  Stepho  talk  07:04, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: British English use is that the longitudinal shaft is called the propeller shaft, not a drive shaft. This applies for RWD, rear transaxles or even for 4WD vehicles. In some 4WD cases there could be two propeller shafts from a transfer box to each axle. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:30, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prop shaft 

message: Suggest we remove Crompton from History. Autocar did first drive shaft in an auto in 1901. By 1903 was old news.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sedimentary (talk • contribs) 21:22, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: With that line of reasoning, 'drive shaft' was first mentioned in 1861, so we may as well delete everything after that. The early 1900s were a time of flux, with many competing terms for almost everything as inventors literally making things up as they went without reference to each other. It took a while for things to settle down to the terms we use today.  Stepho  talk  22:59, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Obsolete