[CAUT] bridle straps

[Andrew Anderson]

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Ed,
I presume you aren't using ultra thin CA to do this?

Andrew

At 02:58 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote:
>I don't like snap, tack or cork tapes.  They are usually not the 
>right length, and often come loose.
>I install tapes like this:
>Mount action horizontal in action rack.
>Remove old tapes,saving a clean cut sample for length.
>(A drop of WD-40 on the old plastic tip makes de-installation much easier.)
>Cut new tapes to length. (Drive a brad into a scrap board and you 
>can mount 6 at a time and chop off at a marked lentgh.)
>Spray tape tips with CA accelerator.
>Put a drop of CA gel at the joint of the butt and dowel.
>Hold tape with tweezers and press tip into CA with a pointed stick or wire.
>Let glue harden and reconnect tapes to wippens.
>
>Ed Sutton
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:jtanner@mozart.sc.edu>Jeff Tanner
>To: 
><mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net>ilvey@sbcglobal.net;<mailto:caut@ptg.org>College 
>and University Technicians
>Sent: 9/21/2005 9:09:52 AM
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] bridle straps
>
>
>On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:55 PM, David Ilvedson wrote:
>
>>Yeah, but this is a nice old Steinway...I do have a set...I've 
>>never installed a set...cork many times...what is it that makes me 
>>squirm when I see spring clips?   Probably the fact that anyone 
>>could pop those babies on....
>
>Anyone who can read can put the cork ones in, too.  That's not what 
>bothers me.
>
>Thing I don't like about the clips is when you have to pull an 
>action and they start coming loose, one after another, you replace 
>one and the next one pops off.
>
>I pulled a compact action to replace a string once and it took me an 
>hour to get all those clips back on.
>
>If this is a "nice old Steinway", why not pull the catcher shanks 
>and glue them in like the originals?  Just curious.
>
>Jeff


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