[CAUT] Down Weight Too High With New Hammers

[Ed Sutton]

Re: [CAUT] Down Weight Too High With New HammersI also do this the way Alan describes. The only difference in my approach is that I use a wide blade spackle knife to mask the center of the slot while painting hide glue on the sides of the slot.
Whatever way you do it, this is a critical repair for quality action work.

Incidentally, if you make a set of light weight go bars, just long enough to clamp an action to your bench top, you may find many uses for it, such as quick clamping of the action stack to the keyframe when leveling keys.

Ed Sutton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: McCoy, Alan 
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  Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:33 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Down Weight Too High With New Hammers


  I do this gang style. I made some clamp blocks long enough for each section. Cut the felt long enough for each section and wide enough for the slot in the bottom of the wippen. Apply the glue quickly to each side of the felt and put it on the section of wippens. Put on the clamp block and use go bars lightly for a few minutes. I don't have pictures here at work of the clamp blocks, but they are easy to make. They are just a strip of hardwood maybe 3/4" thick, 1" wide and as long as the section of wippens with a shallow longitudinal cut-out the length of the strip so that the light clamping pressure of the go bars is applied only to the edges of the felt where the glue is. Then when the glue is hard, cut between the wippens with a felt knife. It is a fast job.

  Alan





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  From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu>
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  Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:47:37 -0700
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  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Down Weight Too High With New Hammers

  I don't clamp - that's why I use hot hide. Apply glue to both ends of the felt, press in place, do the next. Every few, go back over the last ones you did and press firmly again. Clamping would be very troublesome.
  Fred
  On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Zeno Wood wrote:


    Fred - What's your method for clamping the new felt?

    Thanks,
    Zeno Wood


    On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote:
     

      On Sep 18, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Paul Milesi, RPT wrote:
       

        If I can't get new repetitions, is it worth trying to bolster cushions or can they be easily replaced?



      I prefer replacement of felt to bolstering. Turn the stack upside down, saturate the felt with an acetic acid solution (a little wallpaper remover or alcohol helps it soak right in, and heating the solution a bit speeds up the process). Pull felt off when it is nice and loose, replace using hot hide glue. Precut felt to size in a mass production manner (strip to width, then cut to length; or, if you have strips that are as wide as the length you need, just slice to width). Use a rotary cutter on a mat, a straight edge with mild sandpaper glued to one side to hold it firmly.
       Learning this kind of technique is well worth while in the long run, as it has plenty of applications.
       

       
      Regards,
      Fred Sturm
      fssturm at unm.edu
      http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm
       






   
  Regards,
  Fred Sturm
  University of New Mexico
  fssturm at unm.edu




   


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