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<DIV>Someone asked if I could do an experiment of my burning technique to see if
the hammer was moving or the shank. I've got a box full of old Steinway S
hammers glued to shanks, (They are not genuine Steinway parts), on which I did
the experiment. I scribed a line across the shank and the hammer, and using my
Weller heat gun, heated the hammer, and bent it off center, the way
I normally burn a hammer. Guess what. The hammer did not move. The
shank turned. So all this time I thought I was loosening the glue joint,
when I was in fact, I bening the wood.</DIV>
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<DIV>As I said, I heat the shank at the hammer. The question I have is,
where do you guys heat the shank? How far from the hammer?</DIV>
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<DIV>Wim </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>