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In a message dated 10/8/03 5:45:47 PM, alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk writ=
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00000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Del wrote;<BR>
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>>"do you suppose it somehow -- miraculously -- lost<BR>
its desire to get itself straightened out?">><BR>
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As an offshoot to this topic, what then happens to the wood fibres in a<BR>
hammershank when we cast them with a heat source? They certainly have lost<B=
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their "memory" in this case. Would "time" under stress be a factor in a rib<=
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losing it's "memory"?<BR>
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Just asking!<BR>
Alan Forsyth<BR>
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This may be off d path, but Frank Hubbard reports an Italian harpsichord ben=
tside straightened almost wholly in just one day after release from it's cas=
e, and that cypress wood was 200+ years bent, and very thin indeed. Sorry if=
this is not relevant<BR>
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