It strikes me that a good starting place is basic geometry, with the changing total distance from wippen center to balance rail hole via capstan contact point. If you start with the contact point below the magic line and end up with it above, that total distance changed from longer to shorter, to longer. If you set the contact point at the magic line at either the top or the bottom of the keystroke, the length change is one way. With the magic line centered in the stroke, how it it possible to maintain non sliding contact with the direction reversal? With the contact point not passing *through* the magic line, it very likely is. Ron N
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