Paul wrote, << There is as well a phenomenon called duplex metal deformation which is a tension/compression condition caused by the bending of the wire around a curved surface. There is a period of time in which the differential tension/compression as well as the friction vectored toward the contact of the wire with the pin is in movement and equalizing. >> Greetings, Hmm, In the absence of friction, the equalization is not instantaneous? I thought that friction was the only cause of the time release aspect, given that heat loss is time dependant. I was assuming that the changes on the molecular level would have been all at once. Hmm. no physicist I Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos.<BR> (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)</HTML>
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