Bent Tuning Pins

[Avery Todd]

Hi Richard,

Just for the record:

At 09:33 AM 08/07/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Oh you can bend them allright. The average tuning lever
>certainly gives you enough leverage. Take a new one and
>drill a hole in the closest telephone pole and screw it in,
>then give it your best shot... you will bend it easily
>enough me thinks.
>
>RicB

I didn't write this. Ron N. did:

>Avery Todd wrote:
> >
> > >I don't know what this guy does, but he actually, sometimes severely,
> > >bends tuning
> > >pins just in the tuning process. Springing, or flagpoling a pin a little
> > >to find
> > >the string equilibrium point is normal. Bending the pin past it's plastic
> > >deformation limit is severely abnormal.
> > >

But I wrote this:

> >
> >
> > How is this physically possible? It's not like they were made out of some
> > easily bendable material.
> >
> > Avery