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5. HCOB    2 Dec. 1980       Floating Needle and TA Position
                             Modified


      HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
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     HCO BULLETIN OF 2 DECEMBER 1980

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     FLOATING NEEDLE AND TA POSITION
                MODIFIED


This bulletin carries further the data given in

   HCOB 10 Dec. 76RB     C/S Series 99RB
     Re-rev. 25.5.80     SCIENTOLOGY F/N AND TA
                         POSITION

and modifies but does not cancel all HCOBs that mention having to 
have the TA between 2.0 and 3.0 before the F/N can be considered 
valid, including:

   HCOB 21 Oct. 68R      FLOATING NEEDLE
     Rev. 9.7.77

   HCOB  7 May  69R V    FLOATING NEEDLE
     Rev. 15.7.77

   HCOB 21 Apr. 71 RC    C/S Series 36RC
     Rev. 25.7.78        DIANETICS

   HCOB 24 Oct. 71RA     FALSE TA
     Re-rev. 25.5.80

   HCOB 15 Feb. 72R      FALSE TA ADDITION 2
     Rev. 26.1.77

   HCOB 23 Nov. 73RB     DRY AND WET HANDS MAKE
     Re-rev. 25.5.80     FALSE TA

   HCOB  8 June 70       LOW TA HANDLING

   HCOB 13 June 70 II    HUBBARD CONSULTANT STUDY STRESS
                         ANALYSIS

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Some recent tests I conducted have shown that a floating needle 
is a floating needle regardless of tone arm position.

This changes an earlier belief that, in order to be valid, the 
tone arm had to be between 2.0 and 3.0 for it to be called a 
floating needle.

Carefully examining dozens of F/Ns which occurred with the TA 
well above 3.0 and looking for any troubles with the case 
following calling the F/N an F/N, I found that there were no 
adverse consequences.

Therefore, it can be safely assumed that a floating needle is a 
floating needle regardless of where the tone arm position may be. 
It should be called, indicated and written as an F/N, with the TA 
noted.

Palm moisture, pc grip and other factors alter the TA position 
but not the F/N. The auditor must also be prepared to handle and 
handle false TA and nothing in this finding changes handling.

Tone arm positions register the relative mass of the case and 
nothing in this finding changes that. There are low TA cases and 
high TA cases and the state of the TA remains important and all 
data regarding TA positions are valid.

An ARC break needle (an F/N accompanied by bad indicators) 
remains an ARC break needle and nothing in this finding changes 
that. It must be handled. (One ordinarily checks for an ARC break 
in this case.)

This finding about TA position and F/Ns has been corrected 
earlier. This present issue carries it further, based on very 
thorough recent testing. There are apparently no liabilities of 
any kind in calling high and low TA F/Ns, F/Ns.


L. RON HUBBARD
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