Well, there go all my spare thoughts for the next day. Thanks a lot, asshole!
Are we assuming current levels of manufacturing and materials tech, just applied only mechanically, or are we supposed to limit to levels of practicality that you have without CAD, etc? IIRC one of the things that scuppered Babbage was the inability to manufacture quantities of the internals he needed to sufficient tolerances, so it probably makes a big difference.
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