Hi William Perhaps they can... then again Frank attests to at least a happenstance or two f this not being the case. Not really the point tho. Here the point is just making sure that the plate will behave nicely when put under a stress it wasn't designed for. If one has checked this out and it becomes a known then I'd agree there is no problem structurally. Then we are just left with whether or not its a desirable or not... and that seems to go well over into a subjective realm as much as it goes anywhere else. I'm glad tho that caution is raised. Makes one think over what one is doing. Grin... there is enough that can go wrong even in the best laid plans as it is eh ? I can just see some poor sap showing a freshly rebuilt instrument to some critical customer just as the thing goes BANG :):) We dont see any of these vertical hitch pin solutions up here in anycase... and probably not much down on the continent... so its not really an issue here. And as I said in my last... I'm not really sure I see the big deal one way or the other. The slanted hitch pin and back scale in its multitude of variances works dandy enough. I suppose the well thought out vertical hitch pin system does as well. Ya don't think Baldwin checked out plate stresses when deciding to introduce these vertical pins then ??? Cheers RicB Hi Ric, I think what you say makes sense, but I don't think it's safe to say that just because it's intuitive, a particular manufacturer took that step. I'd think it would be just as easy to say that most if not all plates can easily withstand the pressures of vertical hitches with the strings "riding high." Maybe someone knows if this was really a design consideration at Baldwin. Del? William R. Monroe From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no> SNIP > The other bit I find very interesting is your point about the stresses on > the plate a vertical hitch pins creates. I take it as a given that Baldwin > figured this into their equation when designing their plates... but simply > installing vertical hitch pins in a plate where this was not designed into > the thing to begin with does strikes me as risky at best. SNIP > Cheers > RicB
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