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Shock Absorbers
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Tim Wescott wrote: I asked this question once before moths ago, but didn't get the answer I wanted -- so now I'll try again and see if anything has changed. I have a scissor-action gate, a great big heavy thing. It's nicely counterbalanced with springs, but when it comes down it does so with a BANG! The shock is bad enough that the gate is currently in my shop getting all the broken bits welded so that it doesn't fall on a child or a UPS guy or something. I don't want to put it back into service without fixing the root cause. What I really need to fix this is one or more really heavy duty motion dampers. Ideally these things will have check valves that will let them move in one direction easily but not the other, and they'll damp in extension (although I can probably get around that problem). A really heavy duty screen door damper that worked in reverse (i.e. damps on the way out instead of the way in) would be absolutely perfect. You can also use a linkage to allow an easy-to-find in-damping shock to work for you - but it's more complicated, slightly. Depending on the gate design, the "linkage" might be as simple as mounting the damper on the opposite side of the support. Hmm- when I search on scissor gate, I get the sort of expanding mesh style gates, which would not make sense with banging down (at least all the ones I find open side to side). I'm envisioning a gate that opens from horizontal to straight up like a single-pole gate (barrier gate?) If the gate top pole extends beyond the pivot point, a compression shock on the top outside works the same as an extension shock on the top inside. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by |
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Shock Absorbers
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:11:35 -0500, Ecnerwal wrote:
In article , Tim Wescott wrote: I asked this question once before moths ago, but didn't get the answer I wanted -- so now I'll try again and see if anything has changed. I have a scissor-action gate, a great big heavy thing. It's nicely counterbalanced with springs, but when it comes down it does so with a BANG! The shock is bad enough that the gate is currently in my shop getting all the broken bits welded so that it doesn't fall on a child or a UPS guy or something. I don't want to put it back into service without fixing the root cause. What I really need to fix this is one or more really heavy duty motion dampers. Ideally these things will have check valves that will let them move in one direction easily but not the other, and they'll damp in extension (although I can probably get around that problem). A really heavy duty screen door damper that worked in reverse (i.e. damps on the way out instead of the way in) would be absolutely perfect. You can also use a linkage to allow an easy-to-find in-damping shock to work for you - but it's more complicated, slightly. Depending on the gate design, the "linkage" might be as simple as mounting the damper on the opposite side of the support. Yes, that's 2nd choice. Hmm- when I search on scissor gate, I get the sort of expanding mesh style gates, which would not make sense with banging down (at least all the ones I find open side to side). I'm envisioning a gate that opens from horizontal to straight up like a single-pole gate (barrier gate?) If the gate top pole extends beyond the pivot point, a compression shock on the top outside works the same as an extension shock on the top inside. Barrier gate or vertical swinging gate may be a better description. At any rate it's a 3' x 18' rectangle that weighs somewhere upward of 100 pounds crashing down on a bit of tire tread on a concrete block (it's not my design! Honest!). And no overhang, and with the pivot in an enclosure. There's a linkage that I've dreamed up but if I can do it in one step I prefer that. -- www.wescottdesign.com |
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