<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>   <FONT size=4> Joe</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=4>   You da man. You go now. Seriously I'm right= there with you.Thanks for the Rant. Makes no sense to me></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=4> Dale</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Dale,<BR>If you'd have copied my whole quote, = you'd know I said: " Some Techs<BR>use....." I don't personally see the need= for that sort of hammer<BR>destruction. If a hammer needs the "30 jabs, dee= ply into the 3 to 7 o'clock<BR>area, for prevoicing, those hammers are crap = and I won't use them. If<BR>someone has put a set of these "BBs" on a piano = and I have to deal with<BR>them, it's STEAM/ALCOHOL-WATER OR GARBAGE CAN! Th= e sooner we start throwing<BR>those rock hard hammers back at the manufactur= ers, or better yet, quit<BR>buying them, the sooner they'll wake up and smel= l the futility of their<BR>economics. The only damned reason they make these= is because they can make<BR>multiple sets in a very short time and make a h= uge profit. Let us all<BR>support Hammer Makers like Ron Negron, (Ronsen Ham= mers) and tell the rest to<BR>put there hammers where it's the darkest! (I w= oke up on the wrong side of<BR>the bed this morning!<G>) End of Rant!<= BR>Regards,<BR>Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares= Are I</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>