Larudee's mystery - Was: Ditch the bushings

[Ron Nossaman]

>Are you talking about wire diameter or pin diameter?  I don't recall Ron O
>talking about wire diameter and it sounds like pin diameter fits what you're
>trying to say.
>
>Paul Larudee
>

>> >
>> >>  . . . With the moment arm of the string torque being the radius of
>> >>pin diameter
>> >
>> >(plus the radius of the core wire)
>> >
>> >>and the block contact surface area varying with the circumference
>> >>(pi*D), doesn't this
>> >>  proportion scale?

Hi Paul,
That's why I included it in the reply. Here it is again (7 lines up, that's
Ron O's addition to what I said). And yes, we were talking about torque
holding power against the string tension rather than what it takes to turn
the pin with a tuning hammer. 
 
Ron N