Capstan Relocation

[Newton Hunt]

The critical factors in understanding the consequences of
making a change in an action parameter is to understand the
leverage of the system in it's entirety.  The measurements
you need are:

Up weight
Down weight
Wippen weight
Hammer weight
Key front weight
Key leverage.

Submitted to David Stanwood's formula permits you to
determine the actual strike ratio which is the overall
leverage of the action.  If your action is currently over
leveraged then moving the capstan makes sense but if the
action is currently well leveraged then you will have an
under leveraged action which is as bad to an over leveraged
one.  Before to start fixing something not broken you need
to know fully what you are doing by understanding Stanwood's
system.

Once you understand this system you can analyze any action
and know where the problems lie.

		Newton