Frosty: Yes, you have a very valid point. I myself share the same idea it is not very cost productive to build such a mechanisms with no reason...
DCockey: I was using a completely different approach. I was calculating the Force of the water against one paddle using the ∫▒〖(water...
Thank you all for the help!!
Jim_Hbar: Thank you very much for your help, now I have a better understanding of how things really work. Just to summarized my motor will work...
Tom, yes, it will be nice to do that but the boat is not moving, it is one of those old paddle wheel river cruise boats that are reconstructed...
Thank you both for your replies, We can’t build a decorative wheel that weights less because the owner wants to go back to original design, when...
Good afternoon ladies / gentleman, I'm currently working on a reduction gear design to drive a "decorative" casino-boat paddle wheel. In order...