lead free actions

David Porritt dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu
Wed, 24 Jan 1996 06:11:22 -0600 (CST)



On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Dennis Johnson wrote:

> My personal preferrence has come to a low leverage, low strike weight
> action with just enough lead positioned from the center to help break that
> first inertia and facilitate soft playing. This should easily require less
> than half of the original leads.

I didn't think I was confused, but I am!

Whenever we ADD weight to anything we increase inertia (the tendancy of a
body at rest to remain at rest).  Adding weight might help balance, but
will _increase_ inertia.

Dave Porritt
SMU - Dallas



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