Ted, list -- Back to the drawing board. Thanks for reminding me how it works. Susan ------------------------------------------------------------- Susan, Your tempering method is correct, but sadly, mild steel, also called machine steel cannot be tempered due to low carbon content. I would install grand capstans in Warren's place. They can be spun out using a reversible portable drill with a piece of 1/2 in. dowel with a dimple bored in the end with a 3/8 in. drill. Then spin the new ones in on the drill press with the same dowel, setting the adjustment for the aproximate height. Ted_Sambell@banffcentre.ab.ca One of Murphy,s laws: Nature favours the hidden flaw Another: Mother nature is a bitch. ---------------------------------------------------------------- At 03:00 PM 6/13/97 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Warren, > >This suggestion may be stupid, after all the work you've already put in, but >why don't you tidy up your mild steel adjuster (or make another), and then >temper it with a propane torch and a bucket of oil? At least that's how I >think I remember doing it, way back when. Heat cherry red, quench in oil, >clean up with emory cloth, reheat in torch till straw-colored. If I have it >wrong, no doubt about 250 people on the list know where I went astray. > >Susan > >P.S. Two quotes from your recent humor post were too apropos to pass up. >Thanks for all your humor efforts. > >At 03:17 PM 6/13/97 -0700, you wrote: >>These capstans ordered ordered from both APSCO and Schaff are identical >>and are un-adjustable after they are installed in the key due the taper >>in the adjusting area! The original screws were square vertically and >>horizontally, but these are no bigger than the threads at the bottom and >>widen out to near the size of the original just under the cap. My >>regular adjuster wouldn't turn them at all so I made one out of mild >>steel to the exact size and it became unusable after about ten keys. >>The capstan just buggered it up! >> >>Does anyone have a source for these things, or am I going to have to put >>grand screws in there? >> >>All ideas will be greatly appreciated. >> >>Warren >> >>-- >>Home of the Humor List >>Warren D. Fisher >>fish@communique.net >>Registered Piano Technician >>Piano Technicians Guild >>New Orleans Chapter 701 --------------------------------------------- Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com The hidden flaw never remains hidden. Exceptions prove the rule ... and wreck the budget. -- from Warren Fisher's HUMOR 117.
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