Chain Model

No you don't have to send this to ten of your friends.

I need to find some info at least, or a model at best, of a chain that is
slightly larger than a bicycle chain.
I'm designing a tailgate lift and I need to model a manufactureable or
commonly available chain.

Does anyone have any experience with this and can point me in the right
direction?
I'm assuming that there are different standard sizes of chain, and if that's
the case then pointing me to where I can read up would be great.

TIA,
Muggs

 

I have a part file each for connector & roller links of all the common RC
sizes, from little to big. Want it? Just put them together to make a chain
assy. Or, to save rebuild time, put a couple links on each end and use a
sketch in between. You can also extrude an overall outline shape of the
chain along that sketch to get a path profile. But wait, there's more...if
the chain is used in a lifting application, or whatever some non-circular
path, the sketch can update the "other end" length based on the overall
length and the position of the controlling end. This is done with an
equation and a rebuild. But wait........sorry, that's it.

Tell me what you want from me.....

WT

 

I need to find some info at least, or a model at best, of a chain that is

http://www.daidocorp.com/

 

Thanks Kenneth!

Muggs

 

Try McMaster-Carr. They give a good breakout of chain types (search for
"roller chain" and go to the ANSI Roller Chain page). That's
www.mcmaster.com. And once you find the page(s) you can bring them up
as PDF by hitting the Print icon . . . then just save the PDF file to
your hard drive.

'Sporky'

 

For a static chain I use a multi body, part quick and easy, no mates.
Just model one link, and use a curve driven pattern along a spline of
the chain centre.

have an example if any one would like it.

steve

 

Holy Cow!!

I reach for the McMaster-Carr cat. for almost everything, and I never even
thought to look for chains there.

Anyhow, thanks Spork,
Muggs

 

Reach for? What on Earth for? Free yourself from the bondage of tiny
print and paper cuts:


http://mcmaster.com


Jim S.

 

Calm down, calm down. It's just a figure of speech.

OK, I will admit that my first reaction is to "Click" on the McMaster-Carr
link at the top of god old IE6, BUT, there's nothing like thumbing through
the old paper catalog.
I'll bet I've spent over $1000.00 on things that didn't think that I needed,
just because it was between where I was and where I was going in the
catalog.
Not to mention how excited I get when the new one comes in the mail.
OK, so I miss the old Sears Christmas wish book.

Muggs

 

IE6? What on Earth for? Free yourself from the bondage of popup ads,
security exploits and dozens of open windows cluttering your taskbar...

http://mozilla.org
http://mozilla.org/products/firebird/
http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/



Jim S.

 

Boy, I knew that was going to be a mistake!

I tried Mozilla a while back (maybe a year and a half) and I can't remember
why I didn't like it.
So, OK I'll try it again. Now do I want the plain vanilla or the firebird
variety?

Muggs

 

Muggs, try this, you'll like it! It has popup and ad blocking and sites are
opened within a main window. Lots of customization options and it uses the
IE engine so pages render the same way.

http://www.avantbrowser.com/

- Eddy

 

Firebird renders some of the corner cases better. I've used Mozilla
exclusively since about 1.3, but I'm using Firebird and Thunderbird more
and more. Firebird is Mozilla without all the fluff. No email or news.

Tabbed browsing alone makes it 100x more useful than IE.

Jim S.

 

I used it briefly. As a long time Netscape user, Mozilla/Firebird was
simply more familiar to me. Opera was my first taste of tabbed browsing
though. Now I won't use a browser that doesn't have it.

Jim S.

 

I had it installed for a while. I found XNews a little easier to learn and
use for some of the higher functions. I have also used Netscape and liked
some things about that as well.

matt

 

oh god. i HATE the way it handles multiple accounts. It throws everything in
the same inbox! At least, my boss's is set up that way on his laptop. I
don't know if you can change that. Blech!

check out MozillaFirebird. I like it better than opera. Pretty sure it has
gestures as well. CTRL+wheel zooms in & out. Tabbed browsing.

Only thing is, I have yet to see a browser match the ease of use of
konqueror when it comes to adding bookmarks.

--nick "i can't wait for Mandrake 10 & KDE 3.2!" e.

 

Hey Eddy, Thanks,

I really like Avant Browser so far!
Boy are my eyes opened. I'm usually saying things like "Must use Microsoft,
must use Microsoft" for reasons I don't really understand. ; )

Anyway, Thanks
Muggs

 

the last time i tried setting up a LookOUT client, it wouldn't import the
email that I had exported form LookOUT in the first place!!!

I had to reformat the drive, so i figured back all the email then import
once done reinstalling everything.

outlook wouldn't import outlook mail, so I figured I'd try mozilla. And
guess what?

Mozilla imported the mail that outlook couldn't.

shitty M$.

--nick e.


p.s. I only refer to microsoft as M$ because MS == MandrakeSoft

 

I recently set up an IMAP server on my Linux box at home. Fetchmail
retrieves all my mail from three different POP accounts. The mail is
then fed to procmail which has one rule which runs each message through
SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin adds a header indicating which messages are
SPAM (about 98% accurate). Once that is all done, the mail is ready to
be read. The nice thing about IMAP is that my mail is available to me
from anywhere. As long as I have an internet connection, I can view the
mail stored on my Linux box. When I read mail at work, it shows up as
'Read' at home and vice versa.

Jim S.

 

hey!!

i just did that too!!!

just got imap working sunday night as a matter of fact.

fetchmail->postfix->procmail->spamassassin->courierIMAP--->Kmail.

Just gotta finish tweaking procmail & spamassassin, then get squirrelmail
running.

I have more stuff in my procmailrc than you do tho. I assume certain things
are never spam (stuff from family, etc).

for some reason, I had to remove everything but "authpam" from my
authdaemonrc file for courierIMAP to work. it wouldn't just go thru the
list.

Now I have to find a simple dummy-proof way of getting my mail remotely over
SSH.

-nick e.