Category: Mechanical Design

Wear pads can often be a headache for engineers. Choosing the right pad material can be very difficult and you may not know which material is right without testing several. For most sliding wear...

I often get the question of what type of roller chain should be used in an application. Let's unpack that question in this article. A standard duty roller chain should be specified unless spacial...

Springs are essential to life.  In fact everything on the planet acts like a spring, which follow Hooke’s law.  When force is applied to an object, it will deflect.  If more force is...

Selecting a spring material can be challenging and confusing.  I have often misdirected by the depth of great insight to this subject.  Sometimes too much information leads to...

In this video, Corey explains how the maximum tangential force is determined for your gear tooth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRcDO7D_fqQ

I can remember it clearly; my older brother got a Lego Technics set for his birthday and I saw gears for the first time! I wanted to play with them so badly that I stole a few when he wasn't...