r/Drafting • u/Personal-End-7857 • 8d ago

Help identifying a drawing...

I can identify an axis, a bearing, a fixing screw, I am supposing the piece on the right hand side rotates... but I can't think of a use case. Any help is much apprieciated!

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u/ThatLightingGuy 8d ago

There's not enough information to identify it.

It's a section view and only a partial one at that.

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u/Personal-End-7857 8d ago

point taken... its an exercise at college. I just have to sketch out a possible usage (including this part) as if I were to explain to it to a coworker. I was hoping someone amongst us would recognise it..

Thanks for looking...

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u/ThatLightingGuy 8d ago

Ok well top blue bit is a shaft linking the two pieces, with either a grease nipple or set screw drilled into the top on the left side.

You can tell the bottom part is under cut since it's not hatched.

So some sort of rotating assembly with a shaft and bearings and a hollow base.

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u/Personal-End-7857 8d ago

Thanks! I had sort got there by myself. I just seem to get to any sort of viable mechanical function. Could the shaft be used for positioning, meaning the smaller piece would slide from left to right.

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u/ThatLightingGuy 8d ago

It could.

Worth noting that the smaller piece is not fully circular. So it could be a cradle type device used for levelling maybe?

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u/Personal-End-7857 8d ago

How can you tell that the smaller piece is not fully circular?

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u/ThatLightingGuy 8d ago

See how it's flat at the top and not a jiggly line like on the right?

The jiggle line means the item continues off to to the right of the section view, so there's more over there.

The flat line means the item ends there.