<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><BR>Looking at the pictures of the latchet stay device at Pimlico it strikes <BR>me that the system would quite readily accommodate a torque device to <BR>prevent damage if a bell bumped the "stay" to danger point. That little <BR>lug on the headstock could readily, I think be developed to incorporate <BR>a device such as is used in torque spanners ,that would flip back if <BR>struck too hard and allow the bell to go over. This leads me to wonder <BR>whether automatic fail safe stay devices of any description have been <BR>developed and used. Any ideas?<BR><BR>Ted<BR><BR>If this arrangement is supposed to be an unbreakable stay, were do we consider</DIV>
<DIV>the next point of weakness is. Would a bell jump out of plain bearings or might</DIV>
<DIV>it just break off at the cannons.</DIV>
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<DIV>David</DIV></td></tr></table><br>