Dear Jon and List, By "creaking on keystroke" do you mean that dry, graunching friction that develops between the knuckle and repetition lever / jack? In my experience, this only occurs as the hammer is on it's way to the string, not on the return. In fact, I just walked out to my shop to look at an action, and observed that the knuckle is rarely in contact with the rep lever on the return; the parts are mostly in an independent free fall back to rest. So, if this is true, these parts mostly take a lot of short, one way trips against each other. As these surfaces in contact form the worst source of undesirable friction in the grand action ( contact pressures can be very high), it would seem to me to be best to orient the nap in such a way as to minimize the friction - nap toward the flange. Wear should occur more slowly this way also. If we ever tire of this subject, we can always start in on backcheck leather! Steve Schell stfrsc@juno.com On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:02:14 -0500 (EST) Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net> writes: >Since, it seems, most new knuckles are orientated >with the nap 'towards play', would having the nap >'aid in return' tend to develop less creaking on keystroke? > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Jon Page >Cape Cod. Mass >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >
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