seems to me that you would file the bottom of the agraffe or countersink a little to have an agraffe snug up at the desired angle to the strings. Am I missing something here? pushing brass to the point of stripping the threads seems to miss a step... Andrew Anderson On Oct 3, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Ed Foote wrote: > > > Dave writes: > First came the assumptions.......1/4 inch standard Steinway > Agraffe size......so I am told. > I have a .215 > 7/32 is .219 ........hmmm > Something I should know here?<< > > What I found, disappointingly enough, was that all the supposed > "7/32" agraffes, the threads are all undersized. This was not so in > 1915, at least judging from the agraffes I have removed from those > vintages. I have had trouble, several times in the past, getting new > agraffes to be held securely enough in the plate. The threads would > strip before I could snug them sufficiently in position. I was told > that all agraffes are made in the same place,and orders from a > variety of suppliers seemed to bear this out. > Good luck, > Ed Foote RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101003/55db9089/attachment.htm>
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