/\/\ounting a heater bar

[John Ross]

The proper mounting clips are available from most Dampp-Chaser suppliers.
Item #90123 should work. They used to have stand-offs and long screws, for installation in electronic organs.
Realistically, no heater should be installed in a piano without the humidistat. So be sure you point that out to the owner.
You could just use screws and lengths of piano wire to suspend it. The case of the heater is independant of the element, so no shock danger.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KeyKat88 at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:12 PM
  Subject: /\/\ounting a heater bar


  Greetings,

          I went to a church the other day that had a Baldwin Hamilton Studio upright. It had a heater bar just (and I am not joking here)_ just thrown into the bottom of the piano-not mounted on anything, just loose and setting on the pedal trapwork!..and plugged in! I was asked to mount it.  It is not spring loaded so it can be fit in. 

   Can a heater bar be mounted with 2 simple sheeet metal strips about an inch wide,  bent into a loop and the tab of the loop screwed into the back of the key bed? Will metal mounting loops of any kind interfere with the heat or function of the thing?
  What Is the best way to mount a heater bar?  

  Thanks
  Julia Gottshall
  Rerading, PA 
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