my mouth is still on the floor

[Newton Hunt]

Well shut my mouth and grind my teeth!

You are RIGHT.  It should be _smallest_ difference.

Getting old, gotten drunk, real tired but otherwise no excuse for stupidity.

Thank you for these and other corrections.

		Newton

Ed Sutton wrote:
> 
> Newton,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> ----------
> >From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@optonline.net>
> >To: caut@ptg.org
> >Subject: Re: my mouth is still on the floor
> >Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2001, 6:26 PM
> > To determine the best action spread measure the up and down weight, carefully,
> > and consistently, then either move the rail or shim a flange then remeasure.
> > The setting which provides the greatest difference between up and down weight
> is
> > the correct spread.
> 
> I don't get it.
> The greater the difference between the up and down weight, the greater the
> friction.
> I thought the ideal was to have the friction as low as possible and the
> upweight as close as possible to the downweight so that the key "stays with
> the finger" on return.
> 
> Ed