4 Feb
2003
4 Feb
'03
1:19 a.m.
IMHO, of course, knowing a little bit about how the
Selectric tosses it's element around. Metallic VooDoo
I heard one tech refer to it.
Agree completely. I took one apart years ago and deep
inside were two compound lever assemblies, which could
sound complicated, but what they did was find a kind of
breathtaking simplicity. The lever mechanism worked exactly
like the way a Mobile hangs and balances several inputs to
one output. (picture below).
I'd like to congratulate the inventor of that one.
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John A.