Farrell wrote: > Gee, ya just gotta go and ruin my fun. Your point is well taken, although if > wood cells are expanding in one direction, it is likely that they will be > expanding in other directions - although perhaps at much different rates. > But, yes, I do not know if the hole may have gotten larger in one direction. > I guess I need some micro-calipers. Or maybe I need to bore out a hole so > that a front rail pin just fits into it - then I could evaluate preferred > orientations. Or I could just forget it and go make some money. I think I > hear a set of broken spinet elbows calling me................. OR !!... you COULD try macrosizing the experiment so that you could actually discern these changes with the eyeball. Take a 6 foot by 4 foot peice of wood and shape it like a gigantic flange. Bore out a 2 foot diameter hole on your bench drill press and repeat your experiment.. you may have to let it be exposed to humidity a bit longer... but thats ok. > > > Terry Farrell > Piano Tuning & Service > Tampa, Florida > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com > > ----- Original Message ----- -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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