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It looks fine - are you waiting for tomorrow's 'daily exercise' to do a road test?
It occurs to me that in view of the interest in these plunger type gears it might be worth asking the old boys who raced using them what they can remember about how they worked when used in anger.
I spoke to Doug Collins earlier this evening who, as a 19 year old, rode the 1956 Tour of Britain using a Benelux (he won the last two stages and finished sixth on GC).
I think, given a couple of days, he may dredge up something interesting from the back of his mind.
There are one or two others I can ask - does this sound an interesting project for our lockdown?