At 06:20 AM 3/30/98 -0600, you wrote: >Dear List: > I am about to restring the bass section of an old Krauss piano. I >have both the old strings and the new ones made by Mapes. My problem is >that I have to make my own hitch-pin loops as the hitchpins are 5/16 in >diameter, and no one seems equipped to deal with hitchpins of that size. > My question, then, is "Where do I make the loops?" If I use the >old strings as an exact pattern, the stretch of the new strings will >cause the strings to not fit the old, stretched strings, and probably run >the top of the winding into the pressure bar on top. I am not sure how >to make allowances to assure proper fit.. Can one allow, say, >half-an-inch for stretch, or do I need to be more particular in my >placement of the hitch-pin-loops? > Thanks > > >Leslie ----------------------------------------------------- Hi, Les I've had pretty good results allowing about 3/8" for stretch, on a normal sized upright. It depends, also, on how exactly Schaff copied the old lengths. They sometimes make at least some allowance for stretch, but it might vary a little. I assume that they just left off the loops, and gave you overlong plain wire at the bottom end? This would certainly be custom work. I would just check the wrap length of a few against the originals by putting them together at one end, and following along, holding them next to each other, till I got to the other end, to see if they were exactly even. Wear gloves, of course. Good luck Susan Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "Relax! Between the inconceivably big and the inconceivably small, there's an area where everything is perfetly conceivable!" -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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