This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment The desks that fold forward (toward the player like Baldwins) tend to be weaker. The leverage on the hinge is tremendous when pressed back at the top. The old Conovers had a nice support that was a brass rod that fit into a brass tube that would expand as the desk was laid flat, and would compress to a stop point when the desk were open. That gave some support to the top where people push to try to keep a new book open. I've contemplated trying to make some of those, but it'll never happen! They were a good design though. =20 dp =20 David M. Porritt dporritt@smu.edu ________________________________ From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan Kline Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:16 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: RE: [CAUT] a bad habit?? =20 At 10:57 AM 10/3/2005 -0400, Eric wrote: We have a couple here with the brass plate adaptation. The folding part already has a brass tube in it for the pin to rotate inside. When the desk is punched, the whole end explodes&something has to give since there is a lot of leverage there.=20 What I advise private customers is to support the desk from the back by sliding a book or something between it and the lid, in the middle. I suppose (being techs and all that ...) that we could glue a big block of hammer felt to the case (or screw on a block of wood from inside the case?) to support the flap; then we could watch it disappear or be busted etc. later on ...=20 Susan ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/ce/7a/ce/54/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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