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From: meyer@dbsun.uucp (Don Meyer)
Subject: Re: sliprings
Message-ID: <1992Aug26.160344.9138@dbsun.uucp>
Organization: BioMerieux-Vitek, St. Louis Mo.
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:03:44 GMT
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In article <BtK62M.Mst@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> fasano@venus.iucf.indiana.edu writes:
>... I believe
>the older version of Radio Shacks Armitron used sliprings, but I haven't
>been able to find one.

Hmmm.  I've got one of the ones that just sits there (not wheeled) and
it appears to be purely mechanical as far as movement of the gripper etc.
I think the motor is fixed in the base and power is transmited via gears
and clutches and shafts.  Haven't opened it up though...

Don


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