Hi all, APSCO also has the .010" brass agraffe shims, stock #30582. Although I have some of these, I rarely use them because they change the agraffe position by more than 1/3 of a revolution--too much! (One inch divided by 36 threads = .028".) I make .005" shims out of the aluminum from soft drink cans (OK beer cans) using arch punches. One can will make a lifetime supply of shims. Being only .005" thick, they change the agraffe position by only 1/6 revolution, and being softer then brass, they let you force the turning a tiny bit. And they're free. Les Conover --- jolly roger <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > Hi John, > The Canadian supplier Pianophile, has > .010" shims. you can > order on line. Piano Tech in the US carries both > an agraffe reamer, and a > reamer for reducing the base of the agraffe. Using > both in combination along > the agraffe line makes it easier to keep the string > line level. > > Regards Roger > > > At 11:27 PM 12/6/01 +0000, you wrote: > >At 6:57 PM +0000 12/6/01, Barrie Heaton wrote: > > > >> >Richard Gardner claims he's the only man in > England with a stock of > >>>these. > >> > >>Never come across this man should I know him ? > > > >Contemporary of Bob Glazebrook way back at > Steinways. Went on his > >own in Exeter years ago. About the only man in > England I ever phone > >for advice. Tells a good yarn and does a good > piano -- when he gets > >round to it. > > > >>Fletchers have asked me to send them a few so they > can see if they > >>can make them, but what amazed me is that they > did not know what > >>they was at first, as no one had asked for them > before, well in the > >>last 15 years ! > > > >I blame Mrs. Thatcher! They must have done a > roaring trade in them in the > 60s. > > > >JD > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
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