When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. According to Smith, the Berner cage derives its advantages from three key principles: pulley size ...

After a couple of millennia of fiddling with gears, you’d think there wouldn’t be much new ground to explore in the field of power transmission. And then you see something like an infinitely variable ...

One common misconception is that belts will slip more frequently on composite pulleys than on metal pulleys. Not so! The wedging action of V-belts is so efficient that slip should never be an issue; ...

Have you ever seen a flag being raised, or wondered how a mechanical clock works? Let’s take a look at some of the simple mechanisms that they use. Pulleys and gears. When a flag is raised, it will ...

Of all the components in a conveyor system, the drive mechanism is the most expensive. It can account for as much as two-thirds the cost of the entire system, as well as 80% of the maintenance and ...

A few months and issues of your favorite Mustang magazine have gone by, and we hope you've had a chance to read and absorb the cover story of our Oct. '12 issue. In the article (“The Main Event,” p.