Recent content by JoelDFair

Thank you very much, everyone. I am going to leave the kinematics to our mechanical engineering school partners, when the time comes. I will only be trying to pull together a proto-type model of my concept. Could someone please direct me to the proper forum for answering an initial question I...

I guess I'm just looking for a Yay or Nay that I could move a crankshaft at the end of the lever with sufficient force to drive a piston and compress air. I have extensive uses for CA and solutions for compressed air storage and distribution systems. I'd like to aerate polluted bodies of water...

Very interesting. Thank you very much.

Excellent! I will do a search. Thank you!

Guys! I'm on here because I don't know the answers to these questions and it's even difficult to phrase the questions properly! Sorry! Trying not to be a "BUTCHER"!

Thank you for your patience! Simple diagram attached. Simply put: if a 4000 lb vehicle drives over a "bump" in the road, which in essence is a lever, and I have a fulcrum point 1 or 2 ft from the other end of the lever which, on its upward movement drives a crankshaft to an air compressor piston.

OK. I have a "lever", a 10 ft long piece of steel. It will be placed horizontally level with a "fulcrum" 1 or 2 ft from one end. 2000 lbs of kinetic energy (a vehicle) will roll over the other end of the lever thus applying the force. I want the lever to drive a crankshaft or piston into a...

If I have a 10 foot long lever and the fulcrum is 1 foot from the end, if I place 2000 lbs. of force on the lever, what will be my "force" or torque at the end of the lever? And, very important, how much distance will the tip of the short end of the lever move up if the long end of the lever can...