We have an application where we need to control the movement of an 800 pound piece of steel that rides on a track that can move 15 inches in a straight line, up and down. The structure that it's mounted to tips, and when it does, this 800 pound piece of steel will slam against the stops after...
Another question.
You have a sluice gate in a dam. It's a solid, thick, metal plate that slides up and down to let water through. It's held in place on the vertical edges of the plate.
There is a lot of pressure against the plate from water being held back.
The plate has to slide up and...
I live in Central Mass.
It may not be hard metal bits. It could be a rock or ledge or a tree stump. Trying to figure out if you can rig a trip edge on a horizontal surface like the bottom of that backhoe bucket.
Now I understand.
Hey I'm a liberal arts graduate, so engineering thinking is kind of foreign to me. I appreciate your patience.
Here's one issue.
If you are using a snowplow to move material, the plow has a trip edge on the bottom so if you hit a manhole, or pothole, or raised section of...
I'm not looking to solve engineering problems on this forum. I asked where I could find a retired mech-e, who would be able to analyze a backhoe bucket system, and come up with a better solution for our application. I hoped someone would refer me to a professional organization, a Facebook...
We need to design a new front bucket for the backhoe. The standard bucket is doing some things that are problematic.
If you are interested, I'd be happy to have you out to the farm to show you the issue, and introduce you to the cows.
I run a farm animal rescue, and need to find a retired mech-e, who would be willing to work on an interesting project for the rescue.
I contacted some engineering colleges to see if a student might be interested in the project, but have not yet found anyone.
I figure that a currently employed...
