<HTML>In a message dated 1/5/2003 5:26:09 AM Pacific Standard Time, jonpage@attbi.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj: Re: Restored Baldwin out the door Date: 1/5/2003 5:26:09 AM Pacific Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:jonpage@attbi.com">jonpage@attbi.com</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet At 05:17 AM 1/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I string the tenor/treble chip up to pitch before I recheck/reset my bearing felts and shims in the bass to get appox. 1/2 degree bearing at the crossover down >to zero in the bottom of the mono chords. >   This is especially sensitive and critical to me when setting bearing >on the dreaded cantilever bass bridges so I wait till I can see a very >clear picture as how the board squashes down under the plain wire load. >This way I can call it right on. >  Regards--Dale Erwin In the majority of S&S bass bridges which I have encountered, it is the opposite. Zero to negative d/b at the crossover to mile high bearing on the bottom. These always get new caps. </BLOCKQUOTE>           Hi Jon          I usually find the board so sunk that theres no bearing present any place on the bass bridge but when it's not I don't often see this scenario. New bridge caps is always a good idea though in either case.     Best--Dale </HTML>