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[Ron Nossaman]

>Almost entertaining:
>     Mason and Hamlin AA. During teardown came across two screws in the 
> plate just south of the hitch pins for,uh....about F5 and C7 (ish) 
> Y'know.... those. Anyway, they both act like the impact driver broke 
> them. Spin, but won't come out. No amount of magnet/screw holder/blade 
> under the edge.... nothing would pull them out. Oh well... they're 
> busted.... they'll behave when we jerk the plate.  First thing to notice 
> is that there's no hole in the board or post or anything where the screws 
> are. Then, with the plate down in the rack... there's the nuts! Sure 
> enough, there's nifty little nuts on the underside of the plate to hold 
> these stubby little #18s in the plate. Turns out there's no beams below 
> that tenor area, either. Yeah, the spider is there. One dorsal beam, and 
> one angled cross brace to the bass.
>Ya just never know, eh?
>
>Funny,
>Guy

I noticed something similar in the Walter grand. The only thing I could 
come up with that made sense to me was that these were hoist points, 
plugged with a bolt after the fact. I asked Mr Walters about it in a class 
a couple of years ago, and he confirmed it. Hoist points. That might be the 
case in the Mason too.

Or maybe it's just there to annoy you...

Ron N