Adam,

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:50:45 -0400, M. Adam Davis wrote:

> I must be a mathmatician.  I understand how I should solve the
> problem, and that there /is/ an answer.  So now I'm no longer as
> interested in it as I was while reading it. 

Funny that - I feel the same way about it, but I put it down to my being an engineer!  :-)  I feel the same way about Sudoku - I can see that it needs 
a series of strategies to work out particular parts of it, and if I had to I'd write a program to solve it, but as for doing them all myself, life's too short!

Probably explains why my ratio of finished to in-progress projects is so low.  Is there a completer-finisher in the house?  :-)

>...
> What I'm more interested in now is - what could such a mechanism
> possibly have use as?

What would interest me is how you build it such that the string doesn't get tangled around the hands and their spindles fairly soon in the run.  
Probably have to have the spindles coming in from opposite sides, with the string in the gap in the middle - not like a clock at all, in fact.  Next!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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