>We both know the only way to really solve this problem is to either >discontinue the use of bridge pins as we know them and develop something >else entirely, or switch to horizontally laminated bridge cap stock. > >I realize that neither of these options has much chance of being adopted >right away. They are simply not 'traditional.' > >Del Yea we do, and no they aren't. Pity. So perhaps for those very reasons, the manufacturers should be bugged about it at every opportunity. Kawai did, after all, have the sense and guts to buck tradition and entrenched plastiphobia with the ABS action parts. Maybe eventually, the builders will answer the warranty hotline instead of the designers and start a thought process or two. Somebody's got to do it. Ron N
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