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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: 0.201s | 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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cluckindan ◴[03 Sep 25 06:46 UTC] No.45112918[source]▶
It’s not far fetched though. With careful design, prints often do work on the first try.
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1. SideburnsOfDoom ◴[03 Sep 25 13:39 UTC] No.45115666[source]▶
The article says "I tested a previous revision", so this isn't the first go around.