YC Strike Weights etc

Newton Hunt nhunt@optonline.net
Mon, 05 Nov 2001 22:29:59 -0500


> Just a question,
> 
> If you relocate the capstan on the blacks only, you will have the contact
> point on the whippen heel changed, so what you gain one way you loose a tad
> the other. What happen to hammer and key travel now ?

Think of it like this.  The sharps are not moving the wippens as far as
the naturals.  By relocating the capstan to match the leverage of the
naturals the sharps will be doing exactly the same amount of work and
the naturals.  The touch will then be correct for both keys.

		Newton


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