<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks everyone. I'll give it one try. If it doesn't work, I'll take Joe G's suggestion and just leave 2 strings and change the damper.<div><br></div><div>Ron, it broke at the hitch pin loop.</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Al -</div><div>High Point, NC</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Jan 9, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 1/9/2012 4:37 PM, John Formsma wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I'd say it's going to be as much luck as skill here. I'm sure such<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">things *can* be spliced perfectly. But who among us wants to practice<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">such a technique to perfection? You have to predict the amount of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">stretching that will occur once the splice is tightened. Otherwise, the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">wire ends up too short or too long.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've done it once (I think), and it was certainly lucky that it worked. :-)<br></blockquote><br>I can't see the photo, for whatever arbitrary reason, but it sounds like a break at the bridge pin??? I got away with one too, way back when. Used the original string and loop, and spliced in a section across the bridge - two knots. It pulled up just exactly right. Absolute dumb luck, and no witnesses to brag at. Too bad it wasn't a winning lottery ticket instead. The odds were about the same.<br><br>Ron N<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>