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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I bow to the distinction, but never say never, you
know how varied towers are in shape and load capability, better than
me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=matthewhigby@TiWP5Xuf5IvCF41Ipr8w08ir-JRI-WmFMdsqx4TVpBTyWc7LkAPpqPdz93JVql9gUnQxyFcm1lJxn2t7i0RdP6pB.yahoo.invalid href="http://www.bellhangers.com">Matthew Higby
& Company Ltd, www.bellhangers.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:33
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Saw Pit
Frame</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 3px">parallel
pits do not fit the maximum bells in <BR>the minimum space, H frames or the
L&G set up <BR>with isolated bearing towers on a massive <BR>grillage do
that.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>You must have more experience of designing frames than me! :-)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Design of framesides is one thing - layout is another. The Chawton frame
has lowside parallel pits with bells 1&6, 2&5, 3&4 mouth to
mouth. They have gallows ends to allow the bells to swing as close to the wall
as possible. The bells wouldn't fit in any other layout - I tried very hard to
get bells swinging in 2 directions, but failed to to get a workable
layout.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Matthew</DIV></FONT>
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