Quote Originally Posted by ibdennyak View Post
I like your idea of adding lobes.....or making them taller, at least until something gets bent. Changing the length of the arms would do it too....or a combination.
I don't think I can add lobes. The cam follower bearing or whatever you call the roller that rolls along the cam seems to roll all the way to the bottom of the lobe valleys. If I added more lobes it would't have room for the ratchet to retract completely.

I guess ya it is ingenious. Irritating for me because I cannot adjust it the way I like! BUT lets talk about reliability.... I mean this wacky thing has been working for what? Gotta be more than 70 years. And you could fix any single part of it pretty dang easy. Even the ratchet mechanism we welded new teeth on when it was broken a few years back.