[Mathew]

I want to proceed further mainly to get these never talked about relationships down and ill post a picture at some point to clarify things.

Now the next question is how do we plug the hinge action accumulator3 motion into our previous equation relating to the plane I discussed here.

You need to reference the angle of the left arm relative to the inclined plane. If we reference this plane from the inclined plane itself and not the ground like we do for hinge action, it will be directly vertical to the inclined plane through the angle of the left arm. We can then work out the angle that the left arm is above the inclined plane. This can be the same as the angled hinge action (although unrelated) if you are talking about the angled plane that goes through the inclined plane vertically and not one of its other infinite possibilities. This plane will be the same as Jens plane when accumulator 3 has turned directly towards the inclined plane.

Key

a = is the angle of the relationship between the where the plane I quoted above from when it directly goes into the ground plane (low point) vs where it actually is in degrees - relative to the angle this makes on the inclined plane.

b = This angle is the inclined plane going into the ground plane (this isn't exactly true but to elaborate would require more complication) at an angle. If you create a plane that vertically goes through both the ground and the inclined plane at 90 degrees of its intersection which is the plane line, you can find the angle on this plane

c = The hinge action plane off from the horizontal eg - Horizontal hinge action = 0 degrees and Vertical Hinge Action = 90 degrees

The equation is - ill write this like your doing it on a calculator

a divided by 90 times b minus c

Congrats you now know everything there is to know about the left arm in its own seperate compartment and its geometrical relations.

Now you can just mess around with the equations as you see fit - substituting this equation for the x variable on the last one....

Everyone will have to admit this is really cool stuff. This didn't come to me over night - I've just never had to put this into words before because I just visualise these, so I'm sorry if my explanations aren't perfectly clear.

Edit a and b where labeled wrong....