<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; khtml-nbsp-mode: space; khtml-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV>I don't like snap, tack or cork tapes.  They are usually not the right length, and often come loose.</DIV> <DIV>I install tapes like this:</DIV> <DIV>Mount action horizontal in action rack.</DIV> <DIV>Remove old tapes,saving a clean cut sample for length.</DIV> <DIV>(A drop of WD-40 on the old plastic tip makes de-installation much easier.)</DIV> <DIV>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.)</DIV> <DIV>Spray tape tips with CA accelerator.</DIV> <DIV>Put a drop of CA gel at the joint of the butt and dowel.</DIV> <DIV>Hold tape with tweezers and press tip into CA with a pointed stick or wire.</DIV> <DIV>Let glue harden and reconnect tapes to wippens.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ed Sutton</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jtanner@mozart.sc.edu href="mailto:jtanner@mozart.sc.edu">Jeff Tanner</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=ilvey@sbcglobal.net href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">ilvey@sbcglobal.net</A>;<A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 9/21/2005 9:09:52 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] bridle straps</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:55 PM, David Ilvedson wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=3>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? <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>  </SPAN>Probably the fact that anyone could pop those babies on....</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#0000dd><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></FONT></DIV>Anyone who can read can put the cork ones in, too.  That's not what bothers me.<BR> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>I pulled a compact action to replace a string once and it took me an hour to get all those clips back on.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>If this is a "nice old Steinway", why not pull the catcher shanks and glue them in like the originals?  Just curious.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Jeff</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>