In a message dated 5/30/2000 4:34:20 PM, Richard wrote: <<<<"kindly, point out a "myth" in my response?">>>> Jim B. Richard since you didn't point out a "myth" in my response I will assume that I took false umbrage at your original post. In any event I never said anything about pinblock movement "crushing" bushings, or trying to turn sumersaults...what I said was: "in the event that a pinblock would move enough to crush all the bushings to the point of affecting the block movement there are much more severe problems with that block than any amount of bushings could even begin to address". To address the Mythical Bushing Crushing problem though...... The evidence is that the bushings indeed do get "crushed" as evidenced by the elongated holes and skinny walls on the string side of the bushing when the old tuning pins are removed. I have never seen block movement that would account for this "crushing". So something causes it....... be it pins bending , techs bending pins, string tension pulling the pin over, flagpoling during tuning, being distorted during drilling/pinning, or perhaps the pinblock playing hop scotch under the plate :-) Since you did not address any "myths" of mine I will award y'all a second "myth"...this leaves you with one more. :-) Jim Bryant (FL)
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