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26 January 2024 at 4:01 pm
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Hi,
Didn’t give this any consideration, and of course sawed through an over-sized tail. As the photo shows, this results in a bit of asymmetry, in as much as the top of the lid there’s a half-pin, while at the bottom (and top of lower part) one finds “two meeting half-tails”.
This is of course mostly aesthetics, and nobody else has ever noticed the discrepancy.