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Old 11-01-2013, 09:10 PM   #182 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
This is pretty much what I was suggesting, held at four points instead of two, but with front bars of 0 length. It even over-centers.
*Rereads Four-bar linkage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia*. Now I get it, I did make a 4-bar linkage. Cool. (Mechanical engineering isn't my native language, I must confess.) But you lost me again on '0 length'. If a bar has 0 length, then 2 hinge axes must coincide, which is not the case here.
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