Which way do you spin the hammers on?...possibly it is a left over kinetic energy finally being released...;-] Don't spin them on so fast...;-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Jon Page" <jonpage at comcast.net> To: caut at ptg.org Received: 3/26/2006 5:02:15 AM Subject: [CAUT] Hammer Alignment >Is it just me or am I crazy but I've noticed a misalignment >of hammers after a year or two. By this I mean that the >hammer has leaned towards the treble such that it requires >re-setting. Angled too much for burn-in. >Could it be that the shanks develop a twist, warping >in a clockwise rotation as viewed from the front? >Gravitation whiplash from the rotation of the earth? >The travel is not the culprit. When installed, they were dead on. >I've noticed this developing more so on Renner shanks than Abel. >It's disconcerting to find your laborious efforts gone astray. >They're not bored off center. I can't recall ever finding >ones that leaned counter-clockwise. Oddly enough, >the bass doesn't seem to exhibit this phenomenon. >A newish M needs most of the top two treble sections reset. >Yesterday I reset at least a dozen on an L which had new h/s/f >three years ago. >One could past it off as a poorly hung set >but I know that was not the case. >-- >Regards, >Jon Page
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