My First Agraffe Repair - Done

[Isaac Sadigursky]

Hello,Listers! Here is a little trick in fitting agraffes.Instead of using
expansive machinist mill to remove exess of material from the "seat" of the
agraffe simply do that:
1]Take hammers filing wooden paddle with sandpaper on it:
2]Drill 1/8 inch hole: in it
3]drop the agraffe and gently make 1/2 clockwise+1/2 turn counterclockwise
back and forth a few times
You will be able to see some brass microscopic shavings falling off..
that's enough to reduce the brass from the seating surface.
4]re-install agraffe in question and re-alighn .It woyks! Good Luck! Isaac
Agraffsky-Sadigursky
> [Original Message]
> From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 3/3/05 7:49:49 PM
> Subject: Re: My First Agraffe Repair - Done
>
> There's little choice but to ream if you have a single agraffe to put 
> into a single hole and it doesn't fit. However, there is a better way. 
> Have a handful of agraffes available. If the first one doesn't fit, 
> take it out and try another, and another until one fits. Each hole will 
> take only a few tries to find one that fits,  and taking advantage of 
> the natural variation in the fit of the parts is much easier than 
> reaming.
>
> Kent
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Terry wrote:
>
> > Glad to hear things worked out for you. Pianotek (I think) sells a 
> > handy
> > little reamer that is specifically designed to evenly shave off brass 
> > from
> > the bottom of the main body of the agraffe. It works well.
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> >
> >> That 1927 Steinway agraffe repair came off with hardly a hitch.  The 
> >> new
> >> agraffe from Schaff had that conical undercut.  Even so, I could not 
> >> turn
> >> it far enough after first contact for proper alignment.  And a 10-mil 
> >> shim
> >> washer produced about the same misalignment, only a half-turn earlier.
> >> Instead what I did was this.  I wrapped the threads with a bit of 
> >> paper to
> >> protect them and then very lightly stroked the seating surface of the
> >> agraffe with a fine-toothed machinist’s file.  I rotated the agraffe 
> >> so as
> >> to take off material evenly around the seat.  The first try was 
> >> perfect.
> >> It delayed first contact by about 90 degrees, which made proper 
> >> alignment
> >> reachable with a very snug fit.
> >>
> >> And yes, Joe, I did loose one becket, but the old strings went in and 
> >> are
> >> up to pitch.  I think it helped that I never completely straightened 
> >> out
> >> the wire ends when I removed the strings.  I enlarged the coils just
> >> enough to allow the wire to slip out of the agraffe hole.  You can 
> >> twist a
> >> surprisingly small coil through an agraffe if you’re careful.
> >>
> >> Robert Scott
> >> Ypsilanti, Michigan
> >
> >
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