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No I dont!

I had made a silly inattention mistake. Once corrected everything worked out. I have updated the pictures to show the correct answer.

There will be a vertical shaft at the end of which there will be a pulley which will hold a weight on a cable. The cable will be wrapped around the driving axle and the weight will pull on the axle, causing it to rotate. This axle will have to be a fixed axle. As for how it will drive in both...

It does not need to turn. It will go forward one way and backward the other way. I will simply insert a peg into the driving shaft and wrap the cable with the weight around it in one direction, then wrap it around the peg, then wrap the cable the other direction.

Free axle : The wheels are fixed on the axle and the axle rotates Fixed axle : The axle is fixed on the frame and the wheels rotate independently on the axle.

There is no solution per se. I am currently in the brainstorming stage and I am looking for advice. I have to choose between a free axle or a fixed axle for the freewheeling wheels. Either the wheels or the axle will be mounted on bearings. In either case, there will be a way to align this axle...

I was required to calculate the torsional stresses on these welds (in green) with the point of rotation G. However this doesn't fit any case in Shigley's so I'm at a loss as to how I should have calculated this. As advised by the teacher, I ended up replacing the keys being welded with full...