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Class 1 Lever

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Description

This is the most common type of lever. With a Class 1 Lever the fulcrum is in the middle, like a see-saw. The effort is on one side and the load is on the other.


Features and Uses

Common examples of Class 1 Levers include: a crowbar, scissors, pincers, tinsnips, many push-bike brake levers and calipers and balance type weighing scales.


Animations
Parallel Jaw Pliers - two back pins slide in the slots and to get parallel clamping surfaces of the jaws:
  • For each jaw, distances to clamping surface from center line of the slot and from center of the hole are equal.
  • Centre distances of the holes on the handle are equal.

(the red springs tend to move the jaws apart from each other).

DT Online Buyers' Guide
  • Simple Frames and Linkages can be explored using Construction Kits such as those listed below.


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