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17: Lost Knowledge, Page 136.
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From the column 123
By Cy Tymony
Illustrations by Alison Kendall
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Some readers mistook the second paper clip box for a second fixed anchor. It's not an anchor, it's simply a spacer to keep the duplicator level. With just a single anchor at far left (as shown in Figure 3), the duplicator works great.
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