<html><div>Hi,</div> <div>It'd bother me too.  I think I would turn the bolt out to meet the horn.  There would be obvious stresses on the plate otherwise.</div> <br> <div>At 07:45 PM 5/24/99 -0400, you wrote:</div> <div>>Greetings listees,</div> <div>></div> <div>>I thought I looked at it closely.  I swear the bolt was touching the horn </div> <div>>before I dropped the tension for restringing.  Now there is a gap of about </div> <div>>3/16.  I searched in vain for a wedge that I'm sure wasn't there in the first </div> <div>>place!  This is an Adam Schaaf grand (made 1919).  Tuning stability was good </div> <div>>before tension was dropped.</div> <div>></div> <div>>Anyway, that gap is bothering me.  I'd feel a whole lot better if there had </div> <div>>been a wedge that had fallen out.</div> <div>></div> <div>>I can turn out the bolt to meet the horn, but should I?  Visions of cracked </div> <div>>plate abound in brain.  On the other hand, does the plate flex THAT much?  </div> <div>>Would turning that bolt out CAUSE the plate to break under tension?</div> <div>></div> <div>>Send help if you can.</div> <div>></div> <div>>Best Wishes,</div> <div>>Mike Hoffman</div> > <br> <b>Vince<br> </b><i><<a href="mailto:vince@byu.edu" eudora="autourl">mailto:vince@byu.edu</a>><br> <br> </i></html>