Hi Guys I hope you can help. I’m currently trying to modify some existing equipment and have a problem that I hope you good people can help me solve. I have a fabricated bracket that currently supports another bracket than runs on linear bearings to position its self.
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We have a winch that lifts a load weighing 25kg up a shaft 30m deep. A 2mm Dia wire rope goes up the shaft over a guide pulley and down to the winch reeling drum. There is a load cell on the guide pulley.
The question is this. "If the load cell fails and the load being lifted gets snagged on...
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I have a 20kg weight attached to a 10 meter long wire rope.
The rope is fixed vertically to a cross beam.
The rope has an elastic stretch limit of 47.5 kN/mm^2.
If I lift the 20kg weight up 1 meter and then let it go what would the maximum force exerted by weight be on the...