[Ducati] NDC : Looking for mechanical design advice

[Ryan Scott Bardsley]

I have placed a link to a pic of my assembly here...

http://www.5starl.com/ducati/assembly.jpg

Thanks!

R




On Jun 28, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Ryan Scott Bardsley wrote:

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> Hi guys,
>
> I am hoping to pull from the collective mechanical experience on  
> this list for a problem I am working on at my lab. I need to mount  
> a 1" OD pressure transducer inside of a 1.5" ID pipe. I can't seem  
> to find an elegant mechanical design solution that will firmly grip  
> the transducer inside of the pipe within the tight space  
> constraints that I have.
>
> Has anyone seen any elegant solutions to this problem? Maybe an  
> eccentric cam binding arrangement? Or something similar? I have to  
> squeeze the transducer at the same time as expanding to fit inside  
> of the pipe. Mechanically I am sure this has been done before... I  
> just can't seem to locate and example that fits my app...
>
> Any help or ideas where to look would be greatly appreciated. I am  
> writing to this list because I see lots of examples of brilliant  
> mechanical design on my Duc and parts from NCR and CycleCat that I  
> thought it might be a good place to ask.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ryan
> Cambridge, MA
>
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> 05 MTS 1000DS
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