[CAUT] bridle straps

[Ed Sutton]

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No. I wrote "CA gel," which is a thick form of CA which is in a tube.  You could also use "ultra gap-filling,"  but not ultra thin!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Andrew Anderson 
To: ed440@mindspring.com;College and University Technicians
Sent: 9/21/2005 4:02:16 PM 
Subject: Re: [CAUT] bridle straps


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: Jeff Tanner 

To: ilvey@sbcglobal.net ;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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