<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" text=#000000 = bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dm.porritt@verizon.net = href="mailto:dm.porritt@verizon.net">David M. Porritt</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> December 04, 2002 4:52 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> soundboard = springs</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>I've been inspired!  I have a client, a university in East = Texas that has a 5 year old "D" that is dead.  Sustain is gone.  I = have a "B" and a "D" here that are 9 years old.  The "B" is not dead = yet, but the vultures are circling.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I read in the archives again last night the post from Del of = April 2001 on putting the sounding board springs in.  I've ordered the = springs from McMaster and I've remembered I have some nice "L" shaped maple that = can serve as the mounts for the system.  This maple had a former life as = damper lifter trays.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" = color=#000080></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>What have = you ordered for springs?</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>