Power Hacksaw
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Info
This saw (in yellow) has reciprocating motion inside the arm (in green), driven by a rotating disk (in orange) with a coupler (in grey). This is a crank slider mechanism. The arm pivots at the center of the disk to feed the saw downward to cut the metal bar (in purple).
Source
This Working Model file is adapted from Figure P2.15 on p.83 in Design of Machinery, 3rd ed. by Norton, R. L., McGraw-Hill, 2004. It is also from Figure P5/143 on p. 380 in Engineering Mechanics-Statics, 3rd ed., by Meriam, J. L. and Kraige, L. G., John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
Credits
This Working Model file was first developed by Jie (Jeff) Yang.