[CAUT] Hammer Alignment

[David Ilvedson]

Which way do you spin the hammers on?...possibly it is a left over kinetic energy finally being released...;-]   Don't spin them on so fast...;-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage at comcast.net>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 3/26/2006 5:02:15 AM
Subject: [CAUT] Hammer Alignment


>Is it just me or am I crazy but I've noticed a misalignment
>of hammers after a year or two.  By this I mean that the
>hammer has leaned towards the treble such that it requires
>re-setting.  Angled too much for burn-in.

>Could it be that the shanks develop a twist, warping
>in a clockwise rotation as viewed from the front?
>Gravitation whiplash from the rotation of the earth?

>The travel is not the culprit. When installed, they were dead on.
>I've noticed this developing more so on Renner shanks than Abel.
>It's disconcerting to find your laborious efforts gone astray.

>They're not bored off center. I can't recall ever finding
>ones that leaned counter-clockwise.  Oddly enough,
>the bass doesn't seem to exhibit this phenomenon.

>A newish M needs most of the top two treble sections reset.
>Yesterday I reset at least a dozen on an L which had new h/s/f
>three years ago.

>One could past it off as a poorly hung set
>but I know that was not the case.
>-- 

>Regards,

>Jon Page