After seeing quite a bit of activity on the CVT front from Sariel lately, I got inspired to try my hand at some designs again. I started trying to make something similar to Sheepo did years ago, but stalled there. In the meantime, I did some research, and saw something that inspired me. It was in the [GBC] Let's build ball mechanical flowmeters post, but the post was very in-depth, and I quickly got lost. Thus, I am unsure what the original use of this mechanism (posted second from the bottom at