<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>My experience is the same as Mark's. WNG shanks are downright fragile in terms of torsion. I broke several the first time I tested for loose hammer heads.</div><div><br></div><div>Kent Swafford</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On May 25, 2011, at 7:01 PM, J Patrick Draine wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Ed,<div>I think Mark may be referring to the WNG shanks' becoming very flexible (much more pliable than wood) when heat is applied to them for the purpose of twisting shanks (aligning hammers which need to have their angles corrected). My understanding is they are then quite stable when returned to room temperature. But, that's more my absorption of the party line of M&H/WNG, near neighbors in Haverhill, MA, than experience.</div> <div>Patrick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Ed Foote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a440a@aol.com">a440a@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <font color="black" size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"> <div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:10pt;color:black"> <div style="margin:0px;font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px;color:#000;background-color:#fff"><pre style="font-size:9pt"><tt><font face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:13px;white-space:normal"> </span></font>At 15:44 -0400 25/05/2011, Mark Dierauf wrote: >Interestingly, although the WNG shanks are stiffer than your average >wooden shank, they seem to be noticeably more prone to twisting. <font face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="font-size:small">Hmm, this is the first time I have heard of this, and the several WNG shanks I have seen with hammers on them </span></font></tt></pre> <pre style="font-size:9pt"><tt><font face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="font-size:small"> didn't' seem to twist nearly as much </span></font></tt><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:small">as wooden ones did. What anecdotes do others have? </span></pre> <pre style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:small">Regards, </span></pre><pre style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:small">Ed Foote rpt</span></pre> </div> </div> </font></blockquote></div><br></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>