[CAUT] Which side to yank the butterfly spring?

[Jeannie Grassi]

Hi Ed,

I remember Eric Schandall teaching that method.  I think I might have also
heard someone else mention it in a class, but the name escapes me right now.


jeannie

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ed
Sutton
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:17 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Which side to yank the butterfly spring?

 

I'm reconditioning a set of wippens, and have them off the stack. As I was
cleaning gunk out of the rep lever groove and cleaning the spring tip, I
looked under the lever, at the allignment of the spring coil, and it occured
to me that when the spring is snapped out of the groove and over to the bass
side of the lever, the coil can open easily when you yank on the tip of the
spring to make it stronger. Snap it out to the treble side and it jams
against the underside of the rep lever when you pull. 

 

It seems to me this would be a good policy - snap the spring out to the bass
side when adjusting spring tension. 

 

I don't recall reading or being taught to do it this way. Have I missed
something, or am I imagining that something insignificant really matters?

 

Ed Sutton

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