Restored Baldwin out the door

Jon Page jonpage@attbi.com
Sun, 05 Jan 2003 08:25:33 -0500


At 05:17 AM 1/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
 > I string the tenor/treble chip up to pitch before I recheck/reset my 
bearing felts and shims in the bass to get appox. 1/2 degree bearing at the 
crossover down >to zero in the bottom of the mono chords.
>     This is especially sensitive and critical to me when setting bearing 
> on the dreaded cantilever bass bridges so I wait till I can see a very 
> clear picture as how the board squashes down under the plain wire load. 
> This way I can call it right on.
>    Regards--Dale Erwin

In the majority of S&S bass bridges which I have encountered, it is the 
opposite.
Zero to negative d/b at the crossover to mile high bearing on the bottom.

These always get new caps.



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