Hi Brian, I forgot to mention, bend the punching once, it springs back a little but not to where it was, and is very stable. Maybe I should invent a portable steam hammer?????????? ( Big grin) Regards roger At 11:43 PM 26/07/00 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Roger, > >Interesting you should bring this up... > >You wrote: >> Walloping the felt punching with a hammer on a hard surface, is preferable >> to removing material. > >I've seen another tech doing this on occasion. I was never taught to do >this, and had already been swapping punchings for a year or two before I saw >it, so it's not a habit I picked up. > >What I wondered about was... do those punchings that get 'walloping' >maintain their smaller dimension pretty faithfully, or do they tend to >return to where they were before the walloping? I can't remember ever >seeing or hearing the question or the answer. > >Any thoughts? > >Brian Trout >Quarryville, PA >btrout@desupernet.net > Roger Jolly Saskatoon, Canada. 306-665-0213 Fax 652-0505
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