Shaft linkage design for oppositely-rotating shafts - GIF

90-degree linkage design for oppositely-rotating shafts.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...332#post165846
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...312#post165790
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...213#post161303
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...135#post161021
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...0929#post73411

Put pistons on the ends of the rods and and cylinders on the plate and you have the elbow engine. It would be interesting to build.

This Vietnamese fellow has posted hundreds of animations like these and cad models for them

https://www.youtube.com/user/thang010146/videos

I wonder how well that would work as a substitute for using miter gears.

it miter work ok...it miter not...could be use for a pumping thingy.

wouldn't the output pulse....like a universal joint?

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Originally Posted by owen moore

Put pistons on the ends of the rods and and cylinders on the plate and you have the elbow engine. It would be interesting to build.

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Interesting but tricky...

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...6488#post66523