I am looking into buying a brake motor to support a vertical load. Our current design is a 200 to 1 two stage reduction gear reducer. The torque at the output of the reducer is around 3500in-lbs. I am looking at a leeson brake motor catalog #114167 that's brake can support 72in-lbs of torque...
I'm currently in the process of redesigning a winch system and wanted to go over some numbers and make sure I'm thinking about it correctly. The current design has been in place for about 10 years but probably wasn't used but once or twice a month for about 10 to 15 minutes each time. I've...
I'm trying to find bearing pressure on a pulley so that I can select the proper one for the design. I know that the bearing pressure will be the (line tension x angle factor)/(shaft diameter x hub width). In our case the angle factor is 2 because the angle between the lines coming off of the...
I'm in the process of writing a report on a winch drum failure. Our winches are wrapped around the drum and then terminated with a u-bolt on the flange of the drum. The customer is stating that the cable slipped out from under the u-bolt. This may have happened but I want to know how I could...
I have a question about something I have been working on lately. I want to make sure that I have the concepts right. The basic question is I have a trailer with a large mast attached to it and am wondering if it will tip over or not. I've attached a picture for reference and some...
