<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 24, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Rick Florence wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Obviously, there is a time to keep the existing pins, which explains<br>David's qualifying statement "This doesn't address stringing on the<br>original pins."  </span></blockquote><br></div><div>Yes, noted, and the post was a good one on the subject of evening out torque. But the full statement was:</div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">"This doesn’t address stringing on the original pins. That is an option if you are comfortable with the extra effort and time."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">In my experience, there really isn't extra effort and time involved. Granted, you need to learn and hone new procedures, but with several under my belt, I find that I probably save time, and perhaps effort as well. It is a little more time consuming to get strings off and on, but I have saved the time and effort removing pins. And the cost of the pins. And any work on the holes. And I have saved time replacing a block down the road (even if it happens after I retire <G>).</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I should say I have developed a few procedures that speed things up. I use a sharpened needle nose to remove coils (it gets between the pin and the becket bend, and grabs the becket, pulls it out of the hole, and pulls the wire off the pin). And I always go through all the pins once the strings are off and standardize the angle of the becket holes so they are all the same, so I don't have to go hunting. Little things like that, and it goes quite smoothly.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><br><div></div></span></font></div></div></body></html>