At 6:43 AM -0500 9/14/05, Conrad Hoffsommer wrote: >The shank traveling can be affected if the original pin is bent and >the replacement is straight (or vice-versa). If those pins _didn't_ >bend it would be a lot harder to center the grand jacks in the >balancier windows... Doesn't take too much to be looking at a mm. of lateral travel during the shanks rise. Not that even 25% of re-pinned shanks need re-traveling, but it happens often enough to make you wonder why there isn't an obvious explanation (which seems to overlook the the other +75%). Mr. Bill
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