My mind boggles that those steel tape rotary switches/slide systems work as well as they do. Have yet to see one fail despite age and knuckle-dragger tech repairs though they do get sticky etc.
The key to it, one supposes, is that they are mechanically stressed to perhaps less than twenty-percent of the strength of the goods.
If "right size" Engineered down to the far more slender riband yet that is all it really takes to move the silly slider, they'd be too costly in overly touchy labour to install, so oversized they went!
FWIW-nothing-really I've been playing with Kevlar & cousins pirated from spools of string-trimmer weed-whacker cord
(doesn't razor-blade the fingers, y'see..) to adapt a largish assortment of different travel lengths of slider potentiometers to 10EE on-apron Armature+Field RPM control, base & below range up into the balancing act of "Field Weakened" range.
The payout/retract "drum", y'see can have a cam profile, even conical "windlass worm" such that degrees of rotation and movement of slider are dynamically selectable, and divorced, one from the other, rather than be commoned-up to a single right circular cylinder.
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de facto "mechanical" taper is produced. Two, actually. Both more easily altered than complementary resistive element tapers as want far more labour to alter the skew of.
Games. The more interesting ones are usually those a person invents for their own amusement rather than buy "LCD focused [1]" as well as a different "LCD" equipped[2] air-head toys at the local El Cheapo store.
[1] Least Cornfused Discombobulated - a population metric, apparent intelligence, or lack-thereof, relevant and generally a more outrageous lie than the averages for lies as well as the averages for its allegedly dumb-ass subjects.
You know who those idiots are. The ones with nicer homes, faster motorsickles, newer and bigger pick-up trucks, more money in the bank, and hotter bed-partners. Too pig-dumb to score high on IQ tests, the crafty bastards went off, found a job they could actually HANDLE, and simply WORKED harder than the ivory-tower pointy-haired entitlement-riders who presume to predict their behaviour as if they were hydraulic fluid, rather than somewhat more anarchistic than feral cats.
Hence the figures lie over whom it be that is actually the "dumb ass" and why Presidential elections can surprise.
[2] Liquid Crystal Display - just what it says it is, though Crystals Suspended in Liquid, "CSL" or "LSC" for Liquid Suspension of Crystals might have been functionally the clearer description.
