How does the Hurst shifter work?

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Not to hijack, but an interesting little thing about an engineer. I used to work on pinsetters in a bowling alley. Talk about a complicated machine! All mechanical, nothing computer controlled. Just mechanical stuff & electrical switches. The guy who taught me how to work on them told me that the guy who designed them went crazy a couple of years later. Seems like he might have said it took the guy 5 years or something like that to design/perfect them.

And; not to hijack the hijack, but I believe it! I remember seeing a mill sharpening machine work. Amazing howmuch is invoolved in some things!
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