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A turntable FOR THE WATERFALL

TECHNIQUE

We enjoy doing this type of work together; cogitating around the basic project: thinking about the principle, the mechanism and the electrical supply. Then, once the preliminary drawings are ready, things get modified, all the potential sources of trouble are spotted. To cut a long story short, additional drawings are produced and a first prototype is printed. More brainstorming follows, with printing and testing of yet another prototype. It is the latter that we describe

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