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layout bolt hole question - clarification please

A month or so back I needed help with laying out 3 bolt holes for a project. The long and short of it stirred up some great help by the group, and MARV KLOTZ chimed in with a calculator formula. I am hoping to get some hand holding help here with how exactly I need to enter this into my calculator, because I am not getting the right numbers it seems.

For example, here is the formula that Marv posted:: The center-to-center distance is referred to as the 'chord'. If that's known, then calculate the 'angle' between adjacent bolt holes as:

angle = 360 / (number of bolt holes)

Then the bolt circle radius is given by:

radius=0.5*chord/sin(0.5*angle)

Regards, Marv

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rbce2003
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Your calculator is probably not RPN, and you are not using any parentheses.

Re-work the problem, and write down the interermediate steps as numbers. I think you will wind up with a very different answer.

The problem you are punching in on the calculator is a very different one than the one you want to solve.

Using Marv's formula for example,

(.5) (your chord) = (.5)(1.25) = .75 or thereabouts.

and sin [(.5)(120)] = sin60 = 0.866

So it would seem that R in this case is going to be something like .75/.866 according to that formula.

Jim

Jim

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jim rozen

Ron I e-mailed you a bolt hole and trig. program.Just enter the number of holes then radius and the starting angle of first hole and it will give you the xand y locations. Tim

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tim

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Carmine Castiglia

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John Sullivan

Thanks Jim & all, that got me going in the right direction. ron

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rbce2003

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