Recent content by DJT1967

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. see attached JPG for...

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...

OK here goes... 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...