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03-13-11 | 05:47 AM

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Michael Angelo

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Originally Posted by dbakl

I remember this coming up in a thread recently. What do they do?

Anyway, spotted 2 on ebay if someone needs:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Simplex-Demultip...0#ht_500wt_922

Mechanical advantage. At the pivot point you have a lever with two cable stops with two different lengths. The rear lever(shorter) moves farther than the front lever (longer)for the same amount of movement.

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