by smjjames » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:05 am
looks like its the same force mechanism behind force paddles, just without the piece of metal, cloth or rubber attatched.
When you look at a force paddle (or any similar mechanism) you'll notice that it moves back and forth a little bit. So I think what is happening here is that the same force is just doing what it should do, just working awkwardly because it doesn't have the metal plate or whatever to work against.
Somehow the middle one reaches a point after the first rotation where it reaches full power and quickly snaps off the anchor. Probably because it's so small, it doesn't take much inertia for it to reach that point.
I thought maybe this could be called the 'naked' form of the force paddle, but dunno about using that term, lol.