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Perfect Balance!

I spent hours last week seperating a box of old watch parts into usable and throw away pieces. The gears fascinated me. They are so perfectly balanced that when you spin them like a spinning top they twirl and twirl and twirl forever. But adding a wooden spool handle upsets the balance and my idea to recycle the gears into gilded spinning tops with vibrantly colored wooden handles failed. Back to the mental drawing board.

 

 

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Uploaded on March 20, 2009
Taken on February 16, 2009