<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  Ron</DIV> <DIV>  Yes I see.</DIV> <DIV>   My point was that if the board was set up to be a spring  it would require bearing to make it work. Many  boards that were initially designed to be compressed by bearing & then went flat (Or near zero)  will with adequate bearing still sound pretty dang good. Obviously the mass & stiffness inherent in these flattened systems was substantial enough to make them work but they are the exception in MO not the rule.</DIV> <DIV>  Dale</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><U>And I was, of course, talking about something designed and <BR>built for zero bearing and zero crown throughout</U>, not <BR>something that was designed for positive bearing and crown and <BR>badly built.<BR><BR>Ron N</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>