Spraying aggraffes w/lacquer!

[Les Conover]

Hi all,
    APSCO also has the .010" brass agraffe shims,
stock #30582. Although I have some of these, I rarely
use them because they change the agraffe position by
more than 1/3 of a revolution--too much!  (One inch
divided by 36 threads = .028".)  I make .005" shims
out of the aluminum from soft drink cans (OK beer
cans) using arch punches.  One can will make a
lifetime supply of shims.  Being only .005" thick,
they change the agraffe position by only 1/6
revolution, and being softer then brass, they let you
force the turning a tiny bit.  And they're free.
    Les Conover
--- jolly roger <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
>                The Canadian supplier Pianophile, has
> .010"  shims. you can
> order on line.   Piano Tech in the US carries both
> an agraffe reamer, and a
> reamer for reducing the base of the agraffe.  Using
> both in combination along
> the agraffe line makes it easier to keep the string
> line level.
> 
> Regards Roger
> 
> 
> At 11:27 PM 12/6/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >At 6:57 PM +0000 12/6/01, Barrie Heaton wrote:
> >
> >>  >Richard Gardner claims he's the only man in
> England with a stock of
> >>>these.
> >>
> >>Never come across this man  should I know him ?
> >
> >Contemporary of Bob Glazebrook way back at
> Steinways.  Went on his 
> >own in Exeter years ago.  About the only man in
> England I ever phone 
> >for advice.  Tells a good yarn and does a good
> piano  -- when he gets 
> >round to it.
> >
> >>Fletchers have asked me to send them a few so they
> can see if they 
> >>can make them,  but what amazed me is that they
> did not know what 
> >>they was at first,  as no one had asked for them
> before, well in the 
> >>last 15 years !
> >
> >I blame Mrs. Thatcher!  They must have done a
> roaring trade in them in the
> 60s.
> >
> >JD
> > 
> 


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