Agraffes for Mason Hamlin

Phillip Ford fordpiano@earthlink.net
Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:47:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00)


>>Has anyone ever had agraffes custom made?  Who does this kind of job?
>>
>>David Love
>
>I haven't, but any reasonably equipped and competent machine shop should 
>be able to make agraffes. I'd expect them to be expensive though.
>
>Check with Schaff. They might have the replacements that APSCO had made. 
>These would be 9/32x34 thread, not the old 9/32x36 that Schaff used to 
>carry, with most of them being double helix thread and utterly useless.
>
>As a fallback, I'd consider 5/16x24 solid Keenserts or something similar, 
>center drilled in a lathe and tapped to 7/32x36 for standard agraffes. Or 
>have that machine shop make up similar inserts (installed with Loctite) 
>far cheaper than they could produce agraffes. You'd have to tap out the 
>plate either way.
>
>Ron N

Do you think there's enough meat on a standard agraffe that you could cut off the shank and then drill and tap the body of the agraffe to accept a 9/32x34 rod?

Phil Ford 



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