>Much easier to read...a couple questions if you will forgive my >ignorance....:) You have pin angles as high as 28 ...degrees ? And >the resistance down / up numbers... those are units of what ?... psi >or ?? Pounds. The pin angles shown are for illustration of the principal, showing the changes of load with changes of angle. The 28° pin angle was where the static friction went negative. I do not build bridges with that pin angle. >Could you put all this into a formula >form to show exactly what pressure is put onto the bridge at the >edges on the bridge ? I have. >ounds a bit difficult to do for the rest of >the bridge as the farther away from the bridge pins the less affect >from them... in an exponential fashion I suppose.. I don't care about the center of the bridge, only the part where the damage is done that produces false beating and the perceived imperative to seat strings periodically. Ron N
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