This device's behaviour feels like something Christopher Zeeman might have invented back in the 1970s to demonstrate catastrophe theory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QTkPfq7w1A
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKz5DoOa54
This mechanism shrinks when pulled

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