I am working on an Arduino PID control project and I want to use a capacitive sensor for detecting the distance between a target and a steel plate. I need the output signal from the sensor to be analog so that I can use it to measure the distance. For some reason I am having difficulty finding a...
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I am working on the design of a machine that will automate the investment casting process for small aluminum parts (ZA-8 alloy). From all the investment casting that I've done, I've always used a fairly large and tall sprue because I was pouring molten aluminum into a room temperature...
I'm a mechanical engineer by trade and don't have a lot of experience with inductive sensors. What I want to do is a use an analog output inductive sensor (something like the Fargo S6108) mounted to a vertical slide controlled with a stepper motor so that the analog sensor is used to make...
This should be a pretty simple problem I just can't remember from my college physics days how to solve this.
Basically a steel rod with a ball end is inserted into a vertical bore that is fixed. This vertical bore is rigidly mounted and moves in the positive X direction so that the ball end on...
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I have an aluminum tray with a drop-in steel structure that sits at room temperature. The tray will be filled with just plain tap water and the steel and aluminum are untreated for corrosion. Will there be a galvanic cell formed between the aluminum and the steel if there is no...
I am working on an application that involves a cantilevered tube. At one end the tube is fixed to a roller assembly that can move the entire cantilevered tube along another tube that is 90 degrees to the cantilevered tube. Think of a T where the middle I is the cantilever tube and it can move...
I have an application where a roller chain sprocket hub is supported by a single deep groove ball bearing that is supported by a 20mm shaft. In order to get the sprocket tooth count to a low enough number to support the application, the sprocket is situated adjacent to the ball bearing (to...
I'm working on tool that incorporates a machining slide that is positioned by a hydraulic cylinder. This hydraulic cylinder will be actuated by an identical hydraulic cylinder driven by a crankshaft ~20 feet away. If the master cylinder being run by the crankshaft compresses 1" per revolution...
Hi all, this is my first post here. I am looking for some advice.
I have an application that requires the use of a 1" needle roller bearing, .75" wide. This bearing is being used as a pilot bearing similar in function to the pilot bearings used to support the transmission input shaft in...
