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Hey Berkeman; this is a personal project...unfortunately I have no adviser at my side :) ... This is going to be used for lifting granite...I will have a steel shaft suspended from a center lifting point...on this shaft will be rollers. They make these to buy...but I wanted to make my own; but I...

Thank you.. I pondered over that... but is it in fact the same? Because the center lift point theoretically isn't applying an upward force..the two sides are just applying downward force on a center supported object? Or is it and I am over thinking it?

Hey everyone, I am not a structural engineer; so I thought maybe I could get some help understanding the concepts of a project I am trying to complete. I am trying to get a rough estimate of a safe load capacity for a "lifting bar" . The material itself is 1" diameter x 36" long 1045 steel...