[CAUT] Agraffe alignment

[Jim Busby]

Ron,

Is this technique something you're willing to share? (En plating? And
heat treating?) I'd love to know more!

Thanks,
Jim Busby BYU

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Ron Overs
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 9:38 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Agraffe alignment

Hi Jim,

>Have you tried Paul Revenko Jones' method of agraffe
>restoration/shaping? It polishes the holes and makes a better taper
>(radius) which doesn't seem to damage as easily. I might take off one
>that I did months ago and see if it manifests the same kind of damage
as
>you expressed. They still have no noise so maybe this "less acute"
angle
>doesn't fracture as easily. I do this to all agraffes, new or old, and
>it seems to minimize the mini glacial thing. (I like that visual)

Yes, Paul is doing some good work. We have developed an approach 
which seems to be quite similar to what Paul is doing. After 
polishing the inner surface we are EN plating the agraffes and heat 
treating. The results have been quite good. The piano we took to 
Rochester last June had agraffes with this work.

Ron O.
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