<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#d8d0c8> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why would they take points off for not seating the wire on a vertical hitch pin down to the plate? You're not supposed to push the wire all the way down to the plate on a vertical hitch.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And BTW, my world is Real, and I am surrounded by vertical hitches. And my world is better for it!  :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:013c01c78de0$bb29ad90$0501a8c0@DESKTOP" align=baseline border=0></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>There's one big difference about the stringing jig: that darned vertical hitch pin.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I did a great splice, went back and neatened up the coil... and then lost a point, because the string wasn't seated around that vertical pin.  Touching the wire at all after seating can make it walk up again... something you don't have in The Real World with an angled hitch pin.  (This was one of the very few Non-Real-World items in the tech test, by the way).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>--Cy--</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>