dissasembler
Student
- May 4, 2025
- 1
Hello engineer people, I hope I'm on the right place. If there's somewhere better for me please let me know.
I'm not an engineering student, I want to build a mechanism and Im not sure where to start reading.
I want to build an arm mechanism that will move a handheld grinder/wirewheel in regular lines or arcs. Metal cabinets of various sizes I want moving slowly on a straight track so the brush pattern covers the surface with a regular pattern. More regular than I can do by hand.
I'm planning making plywood v-wheels and using a few big reductions to get a nice slow RPM, and then an arm or two on a wheel to get reciprocating motion
I want to get a basic design on paper before I start making sawdust. I have a 1hp motor rated at 1650rpm. I can reduce that to something around 30 rpm(?).
Can someone point me to a a primer on building simple Rube Goldberg contraptions out of belts, wheels, cams, rods, etc, I lack the vocabulary to search for something similar. ....If I do it myself it's going to be way more complicated than it needs to be.
Thanks gentlemen.
I'm not an engineering student, I want to build a mechanism and Im not sure where to start reading.
I want to build an arm mechanism that will move a handheld grinder/wirewheel in regular lines or arcs. Metal cabinets of various sizes I want moving slowly on a straight track so the brush pattern covers the surface with a regular pattern. More regular than I can do by hand.
I'm planning making plywood v-wheels and using a few big reductions to get a nice slow RPM, and then an arm or two on a wheel to get reciprocating motion
I want to get a basic design on paper before I start making sawdust. I have a 1hp motor rated at 1650rpm. I can reduce that to something around 30 rpm(?).
Can someone point me to a a primer on building simple Rube Goldberg contraptions out of belts, wheels, cams, rods, etc, I lack the vocabulary to search for something similar. ....If I do it myself it's going to be way more complicated than it needs to be.
Thanks gentlemen.
