--- In
newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Daily <pocotron@...>
wrote:
>
> I am still trying to figure out the reason for the
> flywheel hole. Bearing replacement? Or, maybe the
> flywheel & capstan tried to escape when the tapes &
> frame were being butchered.
I wondered if it might be for pitch bending∗, without needing to have
the top removed.
Jim Bailey
∗I seem to recall reading here (or more likely, the old list) that this
is sometimes called pitch "diving". If such a thing were done using a
muff cover, would that make it muff diving?