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Would this be the correct thinking... I analyzed each part separately. For the cam, I took the distance from the cable to the center and found the max torque to be 2435.4 lb*in. Then for the rotating bearing, I used T = F*d, with the force being 300 lb and distance as the length of the...

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I need some help on the direction to go with this problem. This is a workarm on a leg extension machine and there's 300 pounds (max) coming from the weight stack attached via a cable on the cam. I need to find the total force exterted on this system to double check my results on an analysis...