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ikverhaar t1_it558vk wrote

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>my adoptive dad used to design ball bearings and he had a lot to say about them

I know you're talking about the entire mechanism, but the first thing that popped into my head was just the spherical bearings. "Hey Johnny, have you figured out what our next bearings are gonna look like?" "Yes, I was thinking about perfectly spherical balls of metal, just like our thousand previous designs."

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ddejong42 t1_it5iipy wrote

But what if you need ones that are exactly 3.7654mm in diameter? You're going to need Johnny then!

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hiS_oWn t1_it5ufwz wrote

3.8mm? You've gone mad johnny! Mad!

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ikverhaar t1_it6hnmz wrote

"Hey Johny, we need some 3,7654 mm bearings."

"Yeah, I was thinking of a design with perfectly smooth orbs with a diameter of 3,7654mm."

"Johny, you're revolutionary."

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