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Joe

I read your initial post a few days ago.  The first ideas that I came up with was to use some combination of gearotics,  Vexx, & the Augie vector processor.  I had posted a couple of models under the Mechs & Kinematics topic area that use the Augie Vector processor:
  "walking man"
  "Simulation of Denison double 3-arm gravity escapement" 

The above two simulations demonstrate some of the capabilities of the Augie vector processor.

After seeing your more recent post using the linkage program I decided that perhaps I should play with that program for awhile.  My interest is mainly simulations of mechanisms both to explore capabilities of design programs but also to document/simulate real mechanisms.

Bill Michael

For anyone who is interested in mechanical mechanisms, here is a link to a very large PDF book : Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook by Neil Sclater. It does show a copyright so I don't know what the legalities are of downloading this.

http://160592857366.free.fr/joe/ebooks/ ... CLATER.pdf

I also found a very old ( 1930 ) book called Ingenious Mechanisms by Franklin D. Jones which seems to be available from a number of sites. There have been some updates in 1936, 1951 and 1967. I haven't spent a lot of time comparing them but they appear to be updates, not additions to the original.

David Morrow wrote: For anyone who is interested in mechanical mechanisms, here is a link to a very large PDF book : Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook by Neil Sclater. It does show a copyright so I don't know what the legalities are of downloading this.

http://160592857366.free.fr/joe/ebooks/ ... CLATER.pdf

I also found a very old ( 1930 ) book called Ingenious Mechanisms by Franklin D. Jones which seems to be available from a number of sites. There have been some updates in 1936, 1951 and 1967. I haven't spent a lot of time comparing them but they appear to be updates, not additions to the original.

Possibly too elementary for this crowd, but I've had some fun with the stuff from this book:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=making+mecha ... IVVA4JR8MX

Thanks deraudrl, I've just reserved a copy from my local public library.