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| Model 99, upwards top, is stubbier. Model 66, on the bottom, is longer. |
The model 66 is a full-size machine; the model 99 is a 3/4-size machine alongside the same visual deoxyribonucleic acid equally the 66, the same lines together with curves. Identifying the model 99 past times sight is fairly easy, because it's but a horizontally-squashed version of the model 66, equally you lot tin run into above.
The model 99 is the alone 3/4-size machine I'm roofing inwards this series. One other 3/4-size machine you lot powerfulness run into on Craigslist--I've alone seen i one time or twice--is the model 28/128. This is easily distinguishable past times the shovel-shaped inspection plate and/or dual slide plates:
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| NOT a 99, equally evidenced past times these features. |
So, if you lot run into either of those indicators, you'll know it's non a 99. The 99 has a unmarried center-mounted slide plate, equally seen below:
The alone means to tell if a machine is full-size or 3/4-size is to await at pictures of them over together with over again. After a spell you lot showtime to croak a feel of "Well, that looks likewise 'stubby' to live on a 66" together with you'll realize it's a 99.
There is i other giveaway that it's a 99, which is a chip trickier to see. If you'll recall, I started this serial off past times telling you lot that this photo...
...is a model 99. How did I know? Well, await at the needlebar-containing expanse of the caput of a typical 99:
It form of looks similar the caput of a hammerhead shark.
In other words, the forepart purpose of a 99's caput is symmetrical:
"A" is the same length equally "B." That's unique to the 99.
Contrast that alongside the 66:
As you lot tin see, the same expanse on the 66 is NOT symmetrical top-and-bottom. "A" is definitely shorter than "B" on a 66. It's likewise lopsided to resemble a hammerhead shark.
That's the alone means I could tell from that tiny, crappy niggling photograph that I was looking at a 99. The forepart purpose of the caput looked symmetrical. I e-mailed the possessor together with she afterwards confirmed it.
So, quiz time: Which of the next is a 99?
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How'd you lot do? You tin banking company lucifer your answers below:
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| 1. Too long to live on a 99. This is a 66. |
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| 2. It's stubby, definitely a 3/4 machine. Single slideplate says it's a 99. |
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| 3. Again, likewise long to live on a 99. |
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| 4. Stubby together with has that "Hammerhead" symmetry. It's a 99. |
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| 5. Again, stubby size summation the "Hammerhead" symmetry makes it a 99. |
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| 6. Too long together with stretchy. This is a 66. |
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| 7. Stubby, together with unmarried slideplate. It's a 99. |
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| 8. Stubby, together with barely visible unmarried slideplate. 99. |
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| 9. Stubby, bu non a 99, equally evidenced past times the shovel-shaped inspection plate together with dual slide plates. |
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Is it a 66?
