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Hi Sophie centaur, Thanks for your explanation, you're taking me back to my college physics days:) I'm going to try and back calculate the forces in this press so that I can design my own press with slightly different pressing forces. Thanks again for your help, and I expect to ask further...

Hi Sophiecentaur, The press is used in the cheesemaking. You load the end of the arm with a weight and it presses down onto the cheese which is near the fulcrum exerting a force which presses out the whey. And thanks Simon, that's what I was thinking too but I was confused since in a class 2...

So I'm trying to figure out how to calculate the force behind the pressures achieved in this press. I know the pressures achieved with specific amounts of water(weight) for the pivot point being at either pin a or b but I'd like to know how to calculate this myself. I've tried looking up...