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Looking for a book about mechanisms
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Looking for a book about mechanisms

Looking for a book about mechanisms

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Hi,

Looking for any good English book about mechanisms. He said that he had one but can't remember its title. It was something like "Mechanism Design" but I'm not sure. The book has some practical examples of mechanism design. Its distinguishing feature is that it contains an example showing how to design excavator arm mechanism including different operating angles.

Does anyone know which book it might be ? If not then can you say which book about mechanisms is the best ?

Thanks in advance for your help

RE: Looking for a book about mechanisms

Here are a few from my personal library which might provide you with some inspiration:





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RE: Looking for a book about mechanisms

https://www.amazon.com/Kinematic-Mechanisms-McGraw...

I think this is the textbook we used long ago, seemed decent for what it was, but can't really say if it'll help for a particular application. I don't recall it having the excavator arm in it.

RE: Looking for a book about mechanisms

This is the one we used, 'Kinematics of Machines', by Roland T. Hinkle published by Prentice-Hall:

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

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It's finding someone you can't live without

RE: Looking for a book about mechanisms

"Mechanisims and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook", by Nicholas P. Chironis

RE: Looking for a book about mechanisms

Mechanisms, Linkages, and Mechanical Controls by Chironis (https://www.amazon.com/Mechanisms-Linkages-Mechani...) is a wondrous book to just look through and imagine how our engineering ancestors made things happen in a controlled way in the days before servos, encoders, and computers. A real glimpse into history. And it also shows the very best in manual drafting techniques!

RE: Looking for a book about mechanisms

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There's also the 4 book set "Ingenious Mechanisms".

Also an interesting bookseller: https://www.youroldtimebookstore.com/

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

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