<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Source for spring stock?</title></head><body> <div>At 18:52 -0600 23/12/07, Floyd Gadd wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>...The tail of the spring is threaded through the butt, coming out the side, if I remember correctly, and then being secured in some kind of slot.<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>The problem has been finding an appropriate set of replacement springs.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I'd suggest you take up David Boyce's kind offer.  You need, as he said, to specify a left-handed or right-handed coil and you also have the choice of 7/8" or 3/4".</div> <div><br></div> <div>At 21:32 -0500 23/12/07, Jon Page wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I think springs for hammer butts and wippen assist are made from Beryllium.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Beryllium Copper, you mean.  In the past, these springs were made of brass spring wire, sometimes nickel plated, but now they are usually of phosphor-bronze, the same stuff supplied at exorbitant prices to harpsichord people for strings that were formerly of brass.</div> <div><br></div> <div>At 18:52 -0600 23/12/07, Floyd Gadd wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I have Schaff's spring making tool, and could make the springs if I had the</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>right stock to work with.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>All you need for making springs is a block of wood and some centre-pins, nails or screws.  Here is the tool I'm using for a set of butt springs I have to make this week.  I has a length of dowelling underneath to turn the block.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div align="center"><img src="cid:p06240800c39515fb34a2@[10.0.0.6].1.0"></div> </body> </html>