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I recommend Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design.
Most engineers have this on their desk
https://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
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Between those texts, you will have everything you need to know about stress analysis and design in products.
You can find formulas for gear force/strength in Shigley's. You kind of need to know the material properties to find out the max torque but you can just use a general steel.
150NM (110ft*lbs) isn't a massive amount, so if you keep the RPM down low so friction isn't a major concern I wouldn't assume there would be an issue.
A book that gets mentioned a lot is Shigley's. It covers the basics of design for a wide variety of mechanical components including gears, shafts, bearings, etc. It also covers stuff like material stress, fatigue, and failure theory. I don't know what you're printing or what is it for, but this should help for anything that's not too complicated.
Good old Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design
I took this test (well, I took the paper one, so YMMV). Get the MERM, along with the practice problems/solutions by the same publisher. Get the NCEES practice exam. Get an old edition of Shigley's. Get a thermo book for the tables. Get some sort of HVAC book, and learn how to read those ASHRAE charts.
I went through the MERM, marking useful pages with flags. After each chapter, I went through the sample questions, and flagged the pages in my references that had useful info. The weekend before the test, I barricaded myself in my office to do the practice exam, exam-style; with proper timing and breaks.
Don't forget snacks and earplugs. If the snacks are crinkly, repackage them into a sandwich bag.
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0073398209/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_j2lvDb8VCN7D4
I believe this is what you need
The stock answers are Roark's if it was full of equations, or Shigley's if it was full of diagrams.
Maybe Machinery Handbook, but it doesn't sound like it.
You might take a look at this video, its a 1953 training film from the US Navy that covers the basics of a mechanical fire control computer. It includes information on a large number of mechanisms that would be helpful in making a mechanical computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
EDIT: You might also grab an older edition of Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design: http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
The big one was Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design. All the NCEES test development is done at Clemson and living in SC, a lot of those professors teach prep classes. This one was recommended far and above any other textbook for Machine Design stuff.
I think, in total, I brought in the MERM (heavily marked and noted), the MERM problem guide, the two practice exams, the Machinery's Handbook, Shigley's book, the conversion guide, a couple of the guides given to me at the prep classes (which were mostly focused on HVAC and fluids as my weak points).
The most use came out of the MERM obviously, but there were some questions on the tests that were verbatim out of the problem sets. It was all the right amount of stuff to bring without getting too bogged down in the materials (like the CEs I saw that brought in rolling carts worth of materials).
See this wiki page to get an idea of what engineers do for work on a daily basis: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/workexperience#wiki_work_experience
> I don't want to get as specific as individual circuits or servos, I'd rather find and source those systems and then add them together to make a larger project.
Broadly speaking, this is called electromechanical design, which is simply combining electrical design and machine design. Often when a vehicle gets complex enough, the electrical design and mechanical design are split off into two teams (with sub-teams for each subsystem in those categories), and a third team is created to integrate the two together. The people who make sure all the different subsystems play together nicely are sometimes called Systems Engineers or Integration Engineers, or more jokingly "Engineering Engineers".
I don't know much about the electrical side, but for machine design most people including myself are going to recommend Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design. I suggest getting the 9th Edition or newer just for the introduction chapter, which is one of the best overviews of engineering I've read. You will also want to learn Statics and Dynamics which is a 2nd year course for a wide range of engineering disciplines.
UAVs (commonly called 'drones') are an electromechanical system as most modern vehicles today are, but being an airborne system you will also need some understanding of aerodynamics. Most aerospace engineering undergrads learn this at the beginning of their 3rd year because you need an understanding of vector Calculus and dynamics before grasping concepts in aerodynamics.
As far as I can tell you sit in a room and look stuff up in this
[Design of Machinery] (http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Resource-McGraw-Hill-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/007742171X)
Shigley's Design
Oh crap yeah u right I found this book to be helpful as well https://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
Shigley's Mechanical engineering and Design seems to be the standard for mechanical engineering.
There's two textbooks that are commonly used to teach material behavior and mechanical component design (such as springs, bearings, etc). Both these textbooks are what I had to learn with.
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Behavior-Materials-4th-Edition/dp/0131395068
http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
Both these textbooks are easily to obtain if yer a pirate, as well as the solution manuals. They start fairly basic, however, they quickly go quite in depth. Shigley will probably be most useful for you, but definitely flip through them both. There will be a lot of over-lap content wise. I doubt you will find any textbook material on starter springs specifically because they are a specialty spring, however, mechanics of springs still apply to them.
Have fun :p Component design can get very complicated and convoluted so try and not get frustrated if things don't make sense. Let me know if you have any more questions, and feel free to PM at anytime. I can't promise I'll have a good or correct answer for you all the time, but I can try. Component design was actually one of my least favorite classes so it's definitely not my strong suit, but I understand the majority of what is taught in Shigley's and Dowling's.
How does Roark's compare to Shigley's?
As far as I can
tell you sit in a room and
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