At the front & back there is a hole with a chute under it. There are four gears (one each side, and one top & bottom) which turn when the handle is turned.
A piece of paper fed into one end comes out the other looking like this:
People donate things to the local museum or bring them in to be identified. Most of them I work out, eventually.
This one has been there for many years though (60 or so, I think). http://monissaw.livejournal.com/166169.html
Trouble is, once you've looked at something for a long time, you get bogged down into thinking it must be 'this' when it's really 'that', so a few set of eyes helps (which is why I add much information on them). Also there's always a chance that someone has seen something similar somewhere.
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Date: 2007-08-01 01:42 am (UTC):\
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Date: 2007-08-01 01:50 am (UTC)No :)
People donate things to the local museum or bring them in to be identified. Most of them I work out, eventually.
This one has been there for many years though (60 or so, I think).
http://monissaw.livejournal.com/166169.html
Trouble is, once you've looked at something for a long time, you get bogged down into thinking it must be 'this' when it's really 'that', so a few set of eyes helps (which is why I add much information on them). Also there's always a chance that someone has seen something similar somewhere.
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Date: 2007-08-01 02:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-01 02:41 am (UTC)It was friends locked, but to a custom group taken from friends that I had at the time. Now it's public :)