How a spinning wheel drives a straight stroke

A spinning wheel keeps turning in one direction while a straight rod moves back and forth. This original 3D animation shows how a Scotch yoke converts rotation into a straight reciprocating stroke. Follow the crank pin, bronze sliding shoe, slotted yoke and fixed rod guides. With a 30 mm crank radius, the total stroke is 60 mm. Original 3D educational visualization with synthetic English narration. This is a representative mechanism, not a rated production machine. Sources: https://www.physics.purdue.edu/demos/... https://web.mae.ufl.edu/uhk/dynamics.... #ScotchYoke #MechanicalEngineering #3DAnimation