[CAUT] Hammer Alignment

[David Love]

Do they always end up twisting in the same direction?  One thought is that
if you burn the shanks for straightening at the initial installation and you
hold the heat gun, say, in your right hand, you might be heating one side of
the shank more than the other which might create some unequal tension in the
shank that might play out over the period of a few weeks or months.  

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage at comcast.net>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 3/27/2006 3:52:35 AM
Subject: [CAUT]  Hammer Alignment


>I stopped using hot hide glue a few years ago, too high of a failure rate.
>Even when mixing with distilled water. I've been using Bolduc.

>I only spin one or two rotations and 'rock' it into position. I don't have
>the good fortune of hitting alignment first off, so there is some back
>and forth rotating of the hammer so that should relieve the 'imparted
>torsional forces'.

>Also, why doesn't the bass section twist. It's mostly the top two treble
>sections and with a few in the tenor. Misalignment doesn't occur within
>the first days weeks or months.
>-- 

>Regards,

>Jon Page