shank length

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Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:22:37 EST


 jonpage@attbi.com writes:

>Has anyone reduced the shank length 3mm on a S&S to about 126mm
>and relocated the stack further back 3mm?

No, I've never done that.
What is the reasoning for this?  It seems that you would need a 2" hammer 
blow to use that much leverage and the hammer tails just might be hitting the 
ends of the whippens.  (sounds like the doorway to a nightmare,but let us 
know what happens.....) 

Ed Foote RPT 
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