In a message dated 17/12/03 7:13:01 AM, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: << If you turn them and the next player sits down and feels the excessive friction immediately, and a year later feels the excessive play in the key, it will be you that is labeled the perpetrator of this hack repair job. >> et al; Not picking on Terry here but his comments seem to summarize all the negative comments vis a vis 'turning front rail pins'. Anybody out there got a 'good' technical reason for not turning pins? If there is a 'good' technical reason for not turning pins.....why aren't frontrail pins round rather than ovoid? Can turning front rail pins be over done?....of course it can...just like anything else we do and there are those who over do everything and wonder why they have problems....... Turning front rail pins, within judicial limits, is just as viable an adjustment as say tweaking a back check or a damper or tilting a balance rail pin, etc., etc. If our only 'competent' answer to loose front rail bushing is to replace them then we need to rethink our definition of 'competency'. Just my view. Jim Bryant (FL)
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