Spraying aggraffes w/lacquer!

[Carl Meyer]

Great idea!!!  Do you use lite beer cans?  Lite beer don't make you so drunk
but you still pee a lot, if you like that sort of thing.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Conover" <locolesco@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Cc: <skittylou@att.net>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Spraying aggraffes w/lacquer!


> Hi all,
>     APSCO also has the .010" brass agraffe shims,
> stock #30582. Although I have some of these, I rarely
> use them because they change the agraffe position by
> more than 1/3 of a revolution--too much!  (One inch
> divided by 36 threads = .028".)  I make .005" shims
> out of the aluminum from soft drink cans (OK beer
> cans) using arch punches.  One can will make a
> lifetime supply of shims.  Being only .005" thick,
> they change the agraffe position by only 1/6
> revolution, and being softer then brass, they let you
> force the turning a tiny bit.  And they're free.
>     Les Conover
> --- jolly roger <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hi John,
> >                The Canadian supplier Pianophile, has
> > .010"  shims. you can
> > order on line.   Piano Tech in the US carries both
> > an agraffe reamer, and a
> > reamer for reducing the base of the agraffe.  Using
> > both in combination along
> > the agraffe line makes it easier to keep the string
> > line level.
> >
> > Regards Roger
> >
> >
> > At 11:27 PM 12/6/01 +0000, you wrote:
> > >At 6:57 PM +0000 12/6/01, Barrie Heaton wrote:
> > >
> > >>  >Richard Gardner claims he's the only man in
> > England with a stock of
> > >>>these.
> > >>
> > >>Never come across this man  should I know him ?
> > >
> > >Contemporary of Bob Glazebrook way back at
> > Steinways.  Went on his
> > >own in Exeter years ago.  About the only man in
> > England I ever phone
> > >for advice.  Tells a good yarn and does a good
> > piano  -- when he gets
> > >round to it.
> > >
> > >>Fletchers have asked me to send them a few so they
> > can see if they
> > >>can make them,  but what amazed me is that they
> > did not know what
> > >>they was at first,  as no one had asked for them
> > before, well in the
> > >>last 15 years !
> > >
> > >I blame Mrs. Thatcher!  They must have done a
> > roaring trade in them in the
> > 60s.
> > >
> > >JD
> > >
> >
>
>
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