Hi Susan, I got an inquiry from Dan Hallett today and I am sending along the answer I sent to him. I'll contact you guys tomorrow when I find out a few things as to availability of parts. I guess I don't have your email address so I can just send it to the list. Hi Dan, The basic part of the zapper is a transformer that delivers a low voltage at a fairly high current. I used to use what's called a filament transformer that was used in radios when they had tubes. I am going to Radio Shack tomorrow and I'll find out what is available for that purpose, or there are radio supply stores here in the Los Angeles area. You just run two wires from the two low voltage side of the transformer and put some type of metal strip at the end to contact the centerpin. I will write again in a day or so when I find out where you can get the material and let you know. I hope that's clear enough. I never saw any of Mehaffey's zappers so I don't know how they looked, but you can get a box to mount the transformer with a jack to plug the wires in. There are many physical possibillities as to how it could be constructed. Please let me know if you have further questions. Bud >Dear Bud: > >Susan Kline said to ask you how to make a 'Zapper' as she thinks Francis >Mehaffey isn't making them any more. > >Or - do you know anyone that is making them. > >Dan Hallett At 04:05 PM 11/28/00 -0700, you wrote: > > If a little dose of hair dryer and a dampp chaser rod aren't enough, I > > bite the bullet, take the action home, and repin all the hammer centers. > > Plus I zap or repin any slow jack and wippen centers I find. It takes > > awhile, but I've seen too many truly seized actions from someone spraying > > in some magic potion. If you just do the whole thing, it is fixed, and > > the sluggishness won't come back to plague you. > > > > Susan > > >Hey Bud & Susan, > > I would like to get a zapper too, because this will be a repair for a >store which doesn't want to admit they sold a sick piano, yesterday I was >scolded by the store owner for not being diplomatic with the customer. > > I am sorry if it doesn't work, I will tell them frankly not try to hide >behind some salesman rhetoric. > > I know if I repin the flanges it will take plenty of hours and I >wouldn't be compensated properly enough to begin with, nor do I have much >time this month.... If it is something that I can fix during a tuning then >I will be a hero and called back in good favor. > > If I can't get a zapper could you please describe it exactly so that I >can make one? > > Thanks, > >Eliot Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, california
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