Category: Mechanical Design

My buddy can find strange things. On a recent trip to the dump he found a worn out air conditioner compressor with the shaft broken off. Trash right?Well not for him; he wanted to melt it down and...

As many of you know, Fury 325 suffered from a structural crack and was shut down on Saturday. This beloved attraction is already missed and we hope that it will be up and running in no time. I...

There have been several times in my engineering career that I have needed to limit the force a mechanism can produce, but still allow for unpredictable amounts of deflection. This is very useful in...

Rodless cylinders is a cylinder without a rod. It seems like a stupid idea because if there isn't a rod, how does it do work? I accidentally discovered the concept of a rodless cylinder a few...

As technology improves, mechanical designs have become sleaker and more compact. One exception has been electric motors. For decades, the shape and form factor of a motor has remained constant. ...

If you've ever ridden it, you know the mere 17 second ride on Top Thrill Dragster is nothing less than perfection. You are accelerated to 120 mph (193 kph) in under 4 seconds and then rushed over a...