<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [CAUT] stack fit to keyframe</title></head><body> <div>At 3:57 pm -0600 12/9/06, Fred Sturm wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>The major friction in the action, though, is knuckle to jack/rep top, which is far from the convergence point except in Overs' design.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Strictly not so.  Here is Herrburger's action from 1898, which was imitated with variations but no improvement by one or two other action makers.  Note that the two arcs are as near to touching as can be throughout the descent of the hammer into check.</div> <div><br></div> <div>JD</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><img src="cid:p06240630c12cf16f9e56@[10.0.0.1].1.0"></div> </body> </html>