Hi Peter, I can't get my head around your calculations, although I believe they're 100% accurate.
In the image attached imagine a sideways force, are you saying that a simple plywood box would resist that force more than my steel ladder design?
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I think I'll have to learn how to do the analysis in fusion and pacify myself
Hi Routalot, my thoughts exactly. I could just have a turntable for indexing. Although on simpler parts, imagine a pawn chess piece, it would be nice to just turn it as you would on a lathe.