Since I contract out about all true belly work, I don't worry about this much, but, does anyone make thin spacers that could be used to position agraffes? A spacer of 0.007 would make the agraffe 90-degrees from it's natural seating point. A 0.0035 spacer would give you 45-degrees on an agraffe with a 36 TPI threading. It's hard to think that that level difference would be any more extreme than the natural variation in agraffe manufacturing. Am I really off base here? dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 4/6/2003 at 10:36 AM Ron Nossaman wrote: >> The whole point is that each agraffe, new or old, needs to be >> consistently treated to polish the termination into a true curved shape, >> although it is impossible to duplicate a fine capo shape with the offset >> towards the counterbearing segment. Some agraffe sets in better made >> pianos are in fact canted toward the singing length to create that >offset. >> >>Paul Revenko-Jones > >Paul, >Very nice. Are you shaping and polishing to a specific contour? The point >I >was trying to make was that you can't accidentally insert a single helix >thread in any way that it will end up 180° from where it was before it was >taken out without making height changes. > >Ron N > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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