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Originally Posted by smddanny
Great guys! Lownes and nrpetersen... I thought the change in angular velocity would cancel if the two joints were 90 degrees out of phase... I recall seeing all my old vehicles built this way..
So why align????? I don't get it yet.. but I haven't ruminated on it long enough...
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Excellent question. Short answer (I think this is correct, nrpetersen??) is that they ARE 90 deg out because one is "facing" forward, the other aft, if that makes sense. What the diagram calls "in phase" is actually out of phase. Better terminology might be "correctly phased".