Baldwin torque, (was survey)

[Ron Nossaman]

>Shelly writes:
>>When I worked for Baldwin  in the factory at Conway
>>for  >12  years, the acceptable torque on a pin was between 180 and 230 lbs.
>> otherwise  it was replaced with a  bigger  pin !!!!!!  
>
>Greetings, 
>    Amazing, but I remember those.  This is also one reason that I and 
>several other techs that I knew stopped recommending Baldwin pianos.  That 
>amount of torque does nothing but exhaust the tuner.  
>REgards, 
>Ed Foote

Back when Alan Vincent worked for Baldwin, he told me that they were very
conscientious about fixing anything over 300 inch pounds! I wonder if that
means driving the broken one on through. In any case, tight pins is not the
reason I stopped recommending them.

Ron N