---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Ed, I presume you aren't using ultra thin CA to do this? Andrew At 02:58 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote: >I don't like snap, tack or cork tapes. They are usually not the >right length, and often come loose. >I install tapes like this: >Mount action horizontal in action rack. >Remove old tapes,saving a clean cut sample for length. >(A drop of WD-40 on the old plastic tip makes de-installation much easier.) >Cut new tapes to length. (Drive a brad into a scrap board and you >can mount 6 at a time and chop off at a marked lentgh.) >Spray tape tips with CA accelerator. >Put a drop of CA gel at the joint of the butt and dowel. >Hold tape with tweezers and press tip into CA with a pointed stick or wire. >Let glue harden and reconnect tapes to wippens. > >Ed Sutton > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:jtanner@mozart.sc.edu>Jeff Tanner >To: ><mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net>ilvey@sbcglobal.net;<mailto:caut@ptg.org>College >and University Technicians >Sent: 9/21/2005 9:09:52 AM >Subject: Re: [CAUT] bridle straps > > >On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:55 PM, David Ilvedson wrote: > >>Yeah, but this is a nice old Steinway...I do have a set...I've >>never installed a set...cork many times...what is it that makes me >>squirm when I see spring clips? Probably the fact that anyone >>could pop those babies on.... > >Anyone who can read can put the cork ones in, too. That's not what >bothers me. > >Thing I don't like about the clips is when you have to pull an >action and they start coming loose, one after another, you replace >one and the next one pops off. > >I pulled a compact action to replace a string once and it took me an >hour to get all those clips back on. > >If this is a "nice old Steinway", why not pull the catcher shanks >and glue them in like the originals? Just curious. > >Jeff ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/da/b6/a9/34/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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