Bowden Cable

Input: pink button.
Output: blue pin.
The brown cable housing (a bended helical steel wire in practice) moves outside grey fixed cable.
Position of the pink button can be arbitrary in the space.
The mechanism is used to transmit a pushing force over short distances. It finds application for cameras
The displacement of the input can not be long.
The mechanism is cut off half for easy understanding.

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