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Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters

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160 points Sami_Lehtinen | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 03:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.362s | source
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thrownawaysz ◴[03 Sep 25 06:39 UTC] No.45112875[source]▶
> I have not yet printed and tested this exact model!

Sadly that sums up the 3D printable scene perfectly. So many times I’v seen someone creating X for Y but they don’t have Y to test it but “it should work”.

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1. jy14898 ◴[03 Sep 25 10:11 UTC] No.45114060[source]▶
Fair enough, but this isn't that case. They have Y (it's in the first photo) and tested a previous version of the model. The changes are predictable (rotating letters and slight scaling) so I don't think it's unreasonable to be confident and not waste plastic.