<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Listers,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Just finished stringing a piano with tuning pin bushings.  Drilled the pinblock at 4 degrees, but the bushings, of course, are aligned with the holes in the plate webbing at 0 degrees.  Also, unless the pinblock drilling is perfect, the bushing will be offset from the pinblock hole.  So as the pin is driven through the bushing and into the pinblock, I can see it change direction, and I would think that either the bushing or the pinblock (or maybe both) is being damaged by this misalignment .   Pin torque is right where I want it, so maybe I'm obsessing over nothing.  But I would appreciate hearing from some of you who have more years of following your restringings, is this in fact a problem, and if so, how do you minimize the effect?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>thanks</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Michael Spalding</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:spalding48@earthlink.net">spalding48@earthlink.net</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>