Posted by Devin on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 5:52pm.
Four cm away, so that the product of (number of clips) x (distance from fulcrum)
is the same on both sides
8x2 = 4x4
What you are requiring is that the moments are in balance, so that the net torque about the fulcrum is zero.
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