Soundboard stiffening

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:36:08 +0100


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Delwin D Fandrich wrote:

>>>Please go back and read what I wrote about Baldwin's crowning technique. And then put what I wrote above in its proper context.
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>>I think I understood well enough both what you said and the context.
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>Apparently you did not. I originally said that Baldwin used a combination of
>light rib crown and light compression-crowning to achieve their final crown.
>It exhibits some of the characteristics of each.
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Well obviously I did then...since thats exactly what I understood you to 
say. Personally I see nothing in what little I wrote that could be 
construed otherwise... but just so.

>>It would seems to me that if  ribs
>>did nothing to support crown until  they were flat.... indeed aid in the
>>effort to flatten the panel... then incremental increase in panel
>>stiffness for increase in downbearing would not be possible.. or what ?
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>Or what, indeed -- why must the world be either/or, neither/nor?
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Consistancy... for example ?

>I don't know how gradual or abrupt the transition was. I wasn't testing for
>that. These were just observations made along the way. Personally, I have no
>trouble at all understanding why the transition region was incremental.
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>Del
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Great !.. then it should be no problem explaining this to the rest of us.

Cheers
RicB


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