I'm no mechanical engineer, but I'm astonished that you can move the mass of the plate up and down with a 3/16" set screw, with a hex socket inset in its head! Even if there's not much side force on it, the weight must be considerable -- unless you have 50 of them or something. Common sense bites the dust yet again... --Cy-- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 5:00 PM Subject: Re: Baldwin Designs, etc. / Ron N. > ... So now I'm using a 3/16" NC (16tpi) > socket head set screw 4" long.
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