Guy, What kind of wood did you find worked best? I'm having problems with resiliancy and breakage. I quit doing new boards for a while, but we are the only shop for over 300 mi. around that does them. I am going back to doing them, but I would really like to improve the go-bar situation. I checked out the available pipe, but I have doubts about the stiffness durability. The price is certainly right. Mark Story, RPT Eastern Washington University MS100 Cheney, WA 99004 509-359-7017 mark.story@mail.ewu.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Guy, Karen, and Tor Nichols <nicho@roadrunner.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 4:53 PM Subject: Re: PVC pipe for go-bars > At 05:00 PM 6/16/99 -0500, you wrote: > >Guy, you do not say why it was a pain. Did they break? Hold a curved > >shape? > >LANCE LAFARGUE, RPT > > Yup. No... uh .... long-term resiliency. Plus, we're real dry out here, and > that may have had something to do with it. And... it was just... a pain, > you know, to get 'em to stay put... compared to wood. We clamped bridges, > ribs, lid veneer, just about anything that needed to be clamped. We've > used vacuum, pneumatic, offset klemsia (sp), you name it. The pvc > experiments were in conjuction with some bent lamination jobs we were > doing, and it was just... a pain. Spoiled, I guess. At the time, one of the > reasons was we had finished-up a new section of the shop, and the stinkin' > cieling height had changed. Go figure. Maybe we were just lazy. > > Guy >
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