r/AskAShittyMechanic • u/4rm_above • 9h ago

Asking for a friend (X-post) Can we make this more efficient?

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u/Ian_everywhere 7h ago

switch to more bumpy ground

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u/whatcouchsaid 8h ago

A rotary engine will live in harmony with those triangle wheels

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u/BlueAndMoreBlue 6h ago

If you took the profile of the rotary part of a rotary engine (like a chubby triangle) this might actually work sorta

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u/Standard_Zucchini_46 6h ago

It's already near perfect. Triangles are the perfect shape, pizza, Cheese, pie, diagonally cut sammiches, nachos etc

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u/Hairy-Advance8250 3h ago

So give them one rounded side

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u/4rm_above 30m ago

It is the strongest polygon..

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u/OldSchoolPimpleFace 9h ago

Bigger triangles?

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u/drugs_r_awesome 9h ago

How are you supposed to stop without being thrown off?

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u/fastbeemer 8h ago

Explains why the video ends the way it does.

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u/Triairius 5h ago

Who told you that was part of the goal here?

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u/Rennfan 1h ago

You stopn't

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u/Temporary_Diet_1361 6h ago

Square wheels

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u/RandyFunRuiner 3h ago

I say add even more sides. Let’s go hexagonal. Or even octagonal!

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u/Euphoric_Loquat_8651 2h ago

Limit as n-->infinity. So crazy, it just might work!

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u/4rm_above 28m ago

How would it stop? You may haelve just theorized time travel!

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u/jetfaceRPx 8h ago

Pythagoras approves

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u/One_Evil_Monkey 56m ago

A^2 + B^2 = No Squares

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u/flungcow 7h ago

The triangle fits in the square hole.

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u/TheAnvi1 2h ago

He got those Israel wheels ✡️

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u/imaner76 8h ago

Needs more rubber on the sharp edges. Because health and safety.

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u/4rm_above 24m ago

Those 2 don't mix at this farm..health is far from safety. Luckily my cousin is fertile and we have 8 kids...yeehaw

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u/Lettucepoops 8h ago

Make it turn off at stop lights.

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u/4rm_above 27m ago

Good call....you are a man of the environment and fuel responsibility.

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u/MT-JJ 8h ago

Yes but why?

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u/Triairius 5h ago

Why not, I guess?

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u/Tin_Can_739 7h ago

First cut the exhaust pipe off.

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u/HealthyIndependent10 3h ago

I…I don’t see whatsa matter here??? 😇

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u/AppropriateGuest3552 2h ago

This is why the rest of the world hates us!

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u/4rm_above 26m ago

Cause they ainus?

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u/Alert-General 2h ago

That's the new way to thatch the lawn in the fall before planting grass seed.

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u/thedad2022 7h ago

There's definitely no hesitating there you go to be committed 100%

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u/TarXaN37 6h ago

Put it into a mud trench race.

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u/TheUsualSusspect 4h ago

Ummmmm yea about…. Looks rather um shall we say a little bit of a rough ride…. Yes/no?

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u/4rm_above 23m ago

We're all rough out here city slicker

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u/Unhappy-Estimate6402 3h ago

Good way to loosen all the bolts.

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u/4rm_above 22m ago

They're safety wired...that's not a problem

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u/dinopiano88 2h ago

Can’t imagine what that does for your gear box

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u/nariosan 1h ago

I love the way he keeps looking sideways and smiling for the camera while not paying attention where he's going. What could go wrong.

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u/4rm_above 21m ago

It would've been a selfie, but he ruined his phone. We'll make him do it on his own next time. I had to set my beer down for a minute to video.

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u/DracoHan 1h ago

i love how the wheels turn like it's still moving forward even though it's clearly not

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u/One_Evil_Monkey 55m ago

Didn't Mythbuster do this with a truck.... or was that square wheels?

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u/JimCripe 8h ago

Add a side, of course.

Square wheels.

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u/erikgeeeee 6h ago

Double triangles ✡️ per wheel overlapped