removing spoons

[RJAY440@AOL.COM]

Ron, 
 It may not be necessary to remove the spoons as the spoon hole is usually 
drilled all the way through the whip. Thua would allow you to simply drive 
the spoons in deeper. There are as many ways to do this as there are 
inventive folks. A method I have used successfully involves clamping a small 
vise-grip onto the spoon near the top ( just under the flare of the spoon 
itself ) and then using a pair of pliers to squeeze on the vise-grip and 
bottom of the whip together thus driving the spoon deeper. With judicious 
care this opreation can be performed without removing whips, although removal 
of the damper levers is almost always helpful.


Rod Pierce