Bridge#2

[Transit]

It's what women in Switzerland call a purse...

Very interesting that with all this talent no one managed to come up with the answer to want is a Geneva Clutch. Part of the answer has a clue in the question, Geneva. Geneva is in Swaziland and what are the Swiss famous for other than cheese? Clock works. The Geneva clutch is a device that takes continuous rotating motion and transforms it into a start-stop or step rotation. Doubly interesting is that I haven't found any reference to the Geneva clutch on the internet but it shows up as the Geneva Wheel and Maltese cross.
Remember IBM punch cards? For a brief instant the card is stopped and holes punched in it evenly spaced without a tare, also the Motion Picture Cramer and Projector, digital motion. Some of the Geneva Wheel sites go deeply into the applications, amazing.


Geneva drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[woodlandfarms]

Thanks, i'm a "shift mechanic" for G.E. until they outlaw the lightbulb.

Are you effected by (directly or indirectly) the EU banning filament bulbs?

 

[buggyman1]

Are you effected by (directly or indirectly) the EU banning filament bulbs?

Yes, by 2012 you can no longer buy a regular lightbulb, it's not green enough. G.E. wants to get out of lighting alltogether.

 

[Danno1]

Very interesting that with all this talent no one managed to come up with the answer to want is a Geneva Clutch. Part of the answer has a clue in the question, Geneva. Geneva is in Swaziland and what are the Swiss famous for other than cheese? Clock works. The Geneva clutch is a device that takes continuous rotating motion and transforms it into a start-stop or step rotation. Doubly interesting is that I haven't found any reference to the Geneva clutch on the internet but it shows up as the Geneva Wheel and Maltese cross.
Remember IBM punch cards? For a brief instant the card is stopped and holes punched in it evenly spaced without a tare, also the Motion Picture Cramer and Projector, digital motion. Some of the Geneva Wheel sites go deeply into the applications, amazing.


Geneva drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've always seen it called a "geneva mechanism".


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[buggyman1]

I was gonna be nice...but...what's this got to do with a bridge?

 

[jayste]

I was gonna be nice...but...what's this got to do with a bridge?

 

[Transit]

I was gonna be nice...but...what's this got to do with a bridge?

Got side tracked by post 179.

 

[buggyman1]

This was really a fun project. I like bridge#2 better than my first one. It was way harder, bigger, more $$$, and more head-scratching than #1. I've learned a lot building them both. I think 2 turned out better, stronger, and just looks better. The dogs love them both (i'll get pics of Salt & Pepper, maybe when I start the fort). Its such a joy seeing them running across them, playing on them, kinda like the pigs in "Lonesome Dove" (jayste). I love that movie (mini-series). I have had a great time talking with everyone on TBN. I've enjoyed showing off what i love to do, and thanks for being interested and so very helpful. It takes a village, TBN came through.

 

[jayste]

"Bridgeman1",

We enjoy seeing your progress and learning along the way as well. Even the "detour" posts have taught us something. We've even visited trains, English wheels and Geneva clutches all the while sharing in your endevors! Anyway, it's been a ride, enjoyed the comraderie and by the way...."We don't rent pigs!"

Jay

 

[DJ54]

Nice bridge..!! I didn't read all posts, but did see the one where you drilled 300 holes though the wood, and beams... Maybe someone else suggested it, but I didn't happen to see it if they did.

IF it ever needs to be replaced, or you build another... Instead of drilling through the beam, maybe use what we called "bridge deck clips". You drill beside the beam, and a steel strap approx. 3" long, with a hole towards one end. The clip has..., I guess you call it a offset bend in it. It allows it to be flush with the wood, and thickness of the beam. The other end clips to the beam when tightened.

Smaller versions of this, are used on semi lo-boy decks...

I see you are east of Lexington... Beautiful country..!! I go across Rt. 68, from Maysville, to Lexington to visit my sister.

Speaking of bridges... I may post some pictures of a bridge we are "building" on our "Rails to Trails" project. We are using railroad flat cars for the bridge structure, with decking, and rails to come later. Thay have put another one in since we set the first one, but wasn't there for that one...

Like I don't have enough to do around here already... I volunteer doing stuff like this...

And..., if that's not enough... We pack stone in by horseback, where ODNR's equipment can't get..!! This was done on a bridle, and walking trail in Hocking State Forest, in SE Ohio... We packed 30 tons of stone in by horseback, ( and my Donkey) 2 years ago last spring... 180 lbs. at a time...!!

Sure makes you appreciate things with hydraulics..!!