repairing broken bass strings

[Gregor _]

Jon,

thank you for your explanations. The ascii art came out, but it doesn´t help 
much. But the photo helped. I tried that, but I was not very successfull. 
After a few trials I established a conection. But on the way to that it 
happened that the dead end of the splice loop came under the dead end of the 
wire loop. I have to practice that before I come to the next step which is 
to tighten that conection by pulling the ends.

What´s about the other technique, that reef knot? That´s what I saw in a 
piano but I have no idea how to handle that. Seems to be very difficult.

Paul, what are you talking about in your explanation how to make a loop? 
Never heard of Vise-Grip or LokJaw.

Gregor


>From: Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: repairing broken bass strings
>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:49:38 -0500
>
>>Make a loop in the wire and give it a slight bend at the cross-over.
>
>To clarify this statement:
>By 'bend at the cross-over' I mean once the loop is formed,
>lift the loop by pressing the cross-over onto the wire.  ________./<loop
>Half that bend is sufficient.
>       /.---------->  /  splice
>__ /________./    wire
>     /
>
>
>The loop on the splice is larger than the loop on the wire.
>Pass the splice loop over the wire loop and onto the wire.
>Insert end of splice into wire loop and pull loops together.
>
>I hope this ascii art come out.
>--
>
>Regards,
>
>Jon Page

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