At 3:20 PM -0500 12/5/02, A440A@aol.com wrote: > Hmm, hope we ain't into a semantic whirlpool. I was assuming (which I >shouldn't have been), that the capstan line would also move 3 mm distally to >stay with the whippens. If THAT happened, for a given dip, the hammer is >going to travel a lot more, no? Along with my unwarranted assumption, I >suppose I should have said "increased travel" of the whippens. Naw, Jon was looking for a faux relocation of the cap line. He was planning on keeping the keyframe and the hammer strikepoint in the same place, hoping that if he moved the stack away from the key balance, the new lift point on the rep cushion (3mm distal, as you say) and the slightly shortened lever arm of the shank would reduce the weight of the hammer as felt at the key. It would, but not nearly as quickly as moving the knuckle out or the cap line in (towards the key balance). By the time the initial responses came in, he'd already talked himself out if this trick. I admit it is alot easier to move the hammer line than the cap line. Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, P.T.G. "I go, two plus like, three is pretty much totally five. Whatever" ...........The new math +++++++++++++++++++++
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