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at 3:29 PM, David Love wrote:</DIV><BR =
class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P =
style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" =
size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I like 10 degrees, though =
they are hard to find.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> =
</SPAN>APSCO used to make them</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px =
0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: =
12.0px Helvetica">and you can find them at Schaff still in the old APSCO =
stock.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It =
offers</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT =
face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">good =
clearance with a shorter tip through the scale and still gives =
that</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT =
face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">good =
semi-perpendicular feel. <SPAN =
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14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT =
face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">David =
Love</FONT></P> <BR =
class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Problem =
is they don't fit anything. After I lost my Hale hammer in a =
classroom in college, I bought a rosewood extension hammer from APSCO in =
1992, but was too broke at the time to order extra heads and tips. It =
may have been old Tuners Supply stock, I don't know, but the one extra =
head I had for my Hale hammer does fit it. After APSCO began making =
heads with the Hale logo, they changed the thread size or shaft size or =
something, and the newer APSCO heads do NOT fit my '92 APSCO or Hale or =
whatever hybrid it is hammer. So, I bought a new APSCO hammer so I =
could have more options with heads and tips, but was never happy with =
those tips and then they sold out to to Schaff. Now that Schaff owns =
the brand, as far as I understand, they are only tapping the heads to =
fit the Schaff threads and they don't even match up with Schaff hammers =
and the threads get messed up the first time you crank them down =
tight.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I =
ordered the head I have as a 15 degree, but I think its more like a 10 =
and I love it. I like it much better than the other 15 degree heads I =
have. But a 5 degree head now feels almost like it's a negative =
angle. I only use that with my 7 inch handle.</DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I miss Tuners =
Supply.</DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span"=
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white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, =
RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR =
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