<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; khtml-nbsp-mode: space; khtml-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I can't see a problem, with determining the way the numbers go.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Whichever number is on the end, start there and move on to the next number, then you change gauges.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>i.e. If 13 is at the right hand set of pins it starts there. You will find that when you get to the #19 or #20 it will be in from the first set of the thicker gauge. Conversely, if the #19 is at the first set of pins, on the left. (Mind you left and right can be reversed, if it is on a grand, or tilted.) Then obviously, you start your count from there.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I have found no exceptions, to this.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jtanner@mozart.sc.edu href="mailto:jtanner@mozart.sc.edu">Jeff Tanner</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 14, 2005 1:30 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] 1966 G-2 THANKS ALL!!</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Oct 13, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=3>Common sense is an oxymoron. <snip>  The numbers are there so we don't HAVE to remember which way the count goes. We can figure it out from the placement of the numbers and hitch pattern (if necessary).</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> <DIV>Ok, so maybe not common sense, but everything else about our culture puts us in the mindset of things naturally progressing from left to right.  When one sees a 15 stamped on the plate, for example, it is completely natural to be in the mindset that that unison and the wires to the right of that stamp are 15 and those to the left of that stamp are size 15 1/2 (or whatever the next size stamp reads), but that is not the case at all.</DIV> <DIV>Jeff</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>