Hi Ron, >I guess you've figured out how to get that tiny piece of wire to stay out >at the perimeter of the agraffe seating area. As I recall, most agraffes >have a recess in the area where they seat against the plate. Would you >please share your secret with us? :-) Do you, perhaps circle the copper I think the recess is a fairly recent innovation (that I heartily approve of). The ones I've had to shim were flat on the bottom - but it's a good point. All of my work with recessed agraffs has been with new replacement, in which case I use the mill. >wire several times? How about taking a hammer to such a ring before >dropping it under the agraffe? Matter of fact, that's how I get the >supply house agraffes to fit (the ones that you mentioned as being too >thick to be of use). If they're too tall, I smack `em a few times with a >hammer. They usually flatten out to where they're useful. Okay, once in >a while their diameter gets a little on the hesitant-to-get-into-the- >seating-area side (too big diameter-wise), but I've found that I can trim >them with a pair of end cutters to make them fit. Good idea - why didn't I think of this? ;^) Mark Story, RPT Eastern Washington University | mstory@ewu.edu Cheney, Washington, USA | mark.story@phunnet.org "Is it not strange, that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?" Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
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