This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Ron. I there anything you can tell us about hardening the capo. = I've seen you write about that before. Is this something you do in your = shop? Do you do it to all pianos? Do you have a method of testing the = hardness of the capo? Am I asking questions that have already been = answered? Thanks.=20 Terry Farrell=20 Terry, I don't know about Ron, but I've thought about it, and I = don't see how you could harden the capo. I hope I'm wrong, but you hard, = or temper a metal by heating it until it glows for a certain amount of = time, and then you quench it in either oil or water. The plate is going = to act as a gigantic heat sink, not allowing the metal to get to the = proper temp, and you'd have trouble quenching it even if you did. When = you heat a metal and allow it to cool by itself, it's called annealing, = and it softens the metal. Others can tell me if I'm all wet, but that's = how I understand it.=20 Kevin E. Ramsey ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/2f/f5/72/f1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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