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<div></div><div>Chris Pickford wrote:</div><div><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">>> I’m sure the talk of 8” of movement...is much exaggerated. Don’t take it too literally.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">If there really was 8” of movement in the frame then the bell would be unringable, not just dufficult.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Even at renowned towers which suffer frame and/or tower movement (e..g. The Queen’s Tower) the deflection is millimetres (i.e. up to ten) rather than centimetres, let alone inches.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The question really is why invite criticism for yourself by writing the letter?</p><p class="MsoNormal">I have been in a similar situation. At at tower with very little ringing the ringer checking that the tenor was down before taking coils noticed a strange feeling in the rope. On inspection we discovered the tenor loose on the headstock. We did not even attempt to raise let alone go for a peal.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Fortunately we were able to relocate to another tower within walking distance and we rang a quarter peal.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The problem at the first tower was fixed soon after and we scored our peal a couple of months later.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">James White</span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #fff; height: 0;"></div>
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