<!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 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>The proper mounting clips are available from most Dampp-Chaser suppliers.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Item #90123 should work. They used to have stand-offs and long screws, for installation in electronic organs.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Realistically, no heater should be installed in a piano without the humidistat. So be sure you point that out to the owner.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 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=KeyKat88@aol.com href="mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com">KeyKat88@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:12 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> /\/\ounting a heater bar</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>        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. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> 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?</DIV> <DIV>What Is the best way to mount a heater bar?  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV> <DIV>Julia Gottshall</DIV> <DIV>Rerading, PA </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>