On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, Mark Story wrote: > I've never been able to get the washers to work very well - even the > thinnest are too darn thick. Usually, you only need to take up a third of a > turn or less. Someone calculated this for a Journal item once (where's that > Journal CD ROM), and concluded what we already know - you can't make a > washer thin enough to be useful. You could, I suppose, use a washer and then > mill the agraff to fit. What I have resorted to is using a piece of thin > copper wire wrapped in a ring. The copper in soft enough that it will > flatten to take up the slack that you need. I guess you've figured out how to get that tiny piece of wire to stay out at the perimeter of the agraffe seating area. As I recall, most agraffes have a recess in the area where they seat against the plate. Would you please share your secret with us? :-) Do you, perhaps circle the copper wire several times? How about taking a hammer to such a ring before dropping it under the agraffe? Matter of fact, that's how I get the supply house agraffes to fit (the ones that you mentioned as being too thick to be of use). If they're too tall, I smack `em a few times with a hammer. They usually flatten out to where they're useful. Okay, once in a while their diameter gets a little on the hesitant-to-get-into-the- seating-area side (too big diameter-wise), but I've found that I can trim them with a pair of end cutters to make them fit. Ron Torrella School of Music ** STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLY ** University of Illinois
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