At 11:20 PM -0500 11/13/03, Crashvalve@aol.com wrote:
>Now to follow this up, when tapered pins were used, did they drill a
>tapered hole ?
I've never measured the hole (with a ball gauge). But straight,
over-sized pins don't work in these holes, which is why I'd assume
they have a matching taper.
>Mabye this is why they fell out of favor, you really need to hammer
>intelligently. Even then leveling up pins for height produces wildly
>variable torques.
The boring of the block was probably done by a machinist instead of a
wood-worker.
Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.
"There are fifty ways to screw up on this job. If you can think of
twenty of them, you're a genius......and you aint no genius"
...........Mickey Rourke to William Hurt, in "Body Heat", discussing arson.
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