Hi there.
I'm working on a pretty large project at the moment. There's one part of the project that is absolutely doing my nut in. I have a large MDF floor base, approx 50mm thickness, of which I want to clamp two protruding structures, that a handle can be screwed to.
It's kind of hard to describe, so maybe this picture will help. Those two protruding structures are what I hope to clamp the handlebars to. My problem really is deciding on exactly how I'm going to model these structures.
As the handles are designed to take a persons weight, they will be pushed back and forth a bit. Since the height of the handles must be at around 1 metre, I can see this causing a lot of leverage, and ripping straight through the MDF.
I need a good solid method to stop these from buckling under a lever like mass.
At this point, I'm thinking of building a support structure with threaded inserts of some description.
My apologies for a vague post, I'm not really looking for someone to do all my work for me, I'm just not all too sure where to even start researching for weight bearing structures!
I'm working on a pretty large project at the moment. There's one part of the project that is absolutely doing my nut in. I have a large MDF floor base, approx 50mm thickness, of which I want to clamp two protruding structures, that a handle can be screwed to.
It's kind of hard to describe, so maybe this picture will help. Those two protruding structures are what I hope to clamp the handlebars to. My problem really is deciding on exactly how I'm going to model these structures.
As the handles are designed to take a persons weight, they will be pushed back and forth a bit. Since the height of the handles must be at around 1 metre, I can see this causing a lot of leverage, and ripping straight through the MDF.
I need a good solid method to stop these from buckling under a lever like mass.
At this point, I'm thinking of building a support structure with threaded inserts of some description.
My apologies for a vague post, I'm not really looking for someone to do all my work for me, I'm just not all too sure where to even start researching for weight bearing structures!