bridge top finish

[Overs Pianos]

At 11:28 AM -0700 18/5/06, gordon stelter wrote:

>Where do these  bridge pins come from, please?
>      G
>
>--- Overs Pianos <sec at overspianos.com.au> wrote:
>. . . with bridge pins which are electroless 
>nickel plated with 2 thou of hardened plating.

We start with standard steel bridge pins (which 
we purchase through Baumgärtel in Germany), then 
buff the top section which will be visible in the 
finished bridge, clean with thinners, mount in a 
polypropylene sheet, deliver to platers. After 
plating we heat treat at 260 dgrees C for four 
hours to harden. For those who are curious, we 
are using mid phosphorus EN plating.

In all, its quite a bit of trouble. We have done 
this to see how it works out in reducing the 
crushing effect of the wire on the pin. The 
deformation of standard steel bridge pins is 
quite severe.

By the way, how did your quest for getting to 
Rochester work out Gordon? Are you going?

Ron O.
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