Steel Memory was newbie question: stocking strings

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Avery asks, with reference to a coil of wire bursting forth from the
container, "What is "splinging"? I love it! :-) It just about describes what
happens!"

It does, but there is another string of sounds which follow immediately
after the splinging. These cannot be repeated in polite company.

I think it is interesting that when you snip a string that has been under
tension for maybe 50-100 years it immediately curls up in the same fetal
position it occupied on the coil from the factory. Kind of explains why
steel is used for springs and why it is such a challenge to tie knots in
that stuff!

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
To: <mick@laughinggravy.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:41 PM
Subject: RE: newbie question: stocking strings


> Mick,
>
> I wish I had that problem. I have a complete set of metric and American
size
> wire, all in the metal containers. I recently tried to open one for some
> reason
> or another and couldn't. Made me wonder how I was going to open them when
> I actually run out of one of the sizes! Anyone have a suggestion? I don't
have
> vise grips that big! :-)
>
> Avery
>
> P.S. What is "splinging"? I love it! :-) It just about describes what
happens!
>
> At 10:01 PM 01/16/03 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > >>Get a half kilo roll of sizes 13 to 21 and nice containers to keep
them
> >in.
> >
> >Absolutely... but I for one hate those metal containers. If you drop one
and
> >it opens, the wire  coil jumps out, splinging eveywhere.
> >
> >I like to keep piano wire in waxed paper, coils held together with garden
> >wire.
> >
> >Mick Danby CMIT
> >
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