pounding felt punchings (was tissue paper punchings)

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Brian,
             I forgot to mention, bend the punching once, it springs back a
little but not to where it was, and is very stable.  Maybe I should invent
a portable steam hammer??????????
( Big grin)

Regards roger



At 11:43 PM 26/07/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Roger,
>
>Interesting you should bring this up...
>
>You wrote:
>> Walloping the felt punching with a hammer on a hard surface, is preferable
>> to removing material.
>
>I've seen another tech doing this on occasion.  I was never taught to do
>this, and had already been swapping punchings for a year or two before I saw
>it, so it's not a habit I picked up.
>
>What I wondered about was... do those punchings that get 'walloping'
>maintain their smaller dimension pretty faithfully, or do they tend to
>return to where they were before the walloping?  I can't remember ever
>seeing or hearing the question or the answer.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Brian Trout
>Quarryville, PA
>btrout@desupernet.net
> 
Roger Jolly
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