>As Del Fandrich so eloquently set forth just within the last week, bushings >eventually become ineffectual anyway, and even when still tight, they only >reduce flex (flagpoling), not torsion. Hi Paul, He said it was an arrangement doomed to failure, but failure at what? Phil didn't specify that bushings would have any holding power on the pins, but that was what Del seemed to be addressing. Has anyone actually made any claim to the effect that bushings grip tuning pins like a pinblock and increase torque resistance? Who? I don't recall ever reading it on list if they did, but everyone pulls that out of the hat as the first, and so far only condemnation of plate bushings. I wonder at all this countering of a claim nobody seems to have made. Bushings aren't ineffectual as long as they reduce flagpoling, which is their long term benefit to the tuner as well as being a short term benefit to the pinblock driller as a centering aid. Ron N
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