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It sounds more like a mechanical restriction to me. If so, the problem should be more evident when the platform is closer to being...

Thanks! Mine is actually a cantilever tail lift, not the vertical type shown in the picture. The platform folds and unfolds from the...

Welcome to PF. Start by checking the oil level by dipping the tank. Sight gauges are often marked by varnish from the oil, so can make...

Welcome! It could be any of the mentioned causes, plus some unusual resistance or friction in the mechanism of the lift. Does yours look...

Any instantaneous linear momentum of a particle on one side of the wheel is exactly balanced by an opposite instantaneous linear...

Welcome! You are showing us many photos of the same corner, but we will need to see different angles, in order to provide you with an...

You have it backwards. It is the angular momentum vector that points along the spindle. Consider an element of mass ##dm## on the...

Could we compare your example to a bicycle wheel with its hub or bearings and natural axis of rotation not being perpendicular to the...

Please study and understand the diagram on the right that uses the right hand rule to find the direction of the angular velocity vector...

By the spindle I meant the axis of the top that passes through the little beam at the top. I know the top could theoretically rotate...

Could you please explain "the spindle of the top" a little more in detail? Which other way do you believe it could rotate and why?

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Welcome! Your attached diagram can't be seen for some reason. Try Control+P to insert the image, please. Regardless explanations or...

Not really, except for the eventual small radial centripetal force to make the center of mass go in circles slowly. But you can make...

I had a chance to see it in real time while I was driving Northbound 30 miles South of Cape Canaveral. Thank you for posting!