My textbook (Machine Elements in Mechanical Design 4th ed. by Robert Mott, ISBN: 0-13-061885-3) says that a low cost method of creating a wormgear set is to use a worm with a spur gear. However, it doesn't say how to do this. I'm assuming it must have the same pitch but other than that, I'm not...
I'm still very much a newbie and would really like some help. I've looked through my old Strength of Materials textbook but couldn't find an example of how to draw V-M diagrams for a hinged beam.
My goal is to calculate the stress at the slot. Not sure if I'm looking at solving this...