Hey Avery ! #2 Don't pay any attention to Jeff he is well meaning but rather stodgy at times. His mother may have been frigthened by a tape measure while she was carrying him and so he 'just could be' challenged as to using yellow and black,or black and white, flexible-self retracting, spatial relationship devices. Oh well maybe Jody can straighten him out. :-) Being similarily challenged myself I always try to take my measurements with the action, via action samples, and not with a measuring device and he is correct you can get a regulation awfully close using samples set in the instrument. A caveat here-- if you are doing more than a regulation i.e., new felts, rebuild, etc. you need to measure the samples with the jig and record those measurements *before* you take the action stack off. This done you can then proceed to lose the paper you wrote the measurements on. Jim Bryant (FL) p.s. (and the real reason for my reply) you might want to file the hammers you use to set the samples with, before the samples are set, that way you can get a much closer measurement.
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