Begin forwarded message: > From: Isaac Sadigursky <irs.pianos at earthlink.net> > Date: October 4, 2010 8:16:42 PM PDT > To: Isaac Sadigursky <irs.pianos at earthlink.net> > Subject: Fwd: [pianotech] snugging up an agraffe > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Isaac Sadigursky <isaacspianoservice at gmail.com> >> Date: October 4, 2010 7:55:14 PM PDT >> To: pianotech at ptg.org >> Subject: Re: [pianotech] snugging up an agraffe >> >> Hi,Andrew! >> To "snug-up" or 'seat" agraffe properly you should not 'File the >> buttom'. >> THE MACHINIST MILL is designed to do that task. >> It is available in Pianotek catalog. >> It was introduced many years ago by me in my " End of Agraffe >> Agrevation" class and Susan Graham liked the idea and published it >> under Tech.Tips. >> Try it when agraffe is coming BEFORE the proper position. f you are >> on a budget:CD [cheap and dirty method} is;take a hammer Filing >> paddle,drill 1/4' hole in it.Drop the agraffe in that hole and FILE >> the Agraffe Buttom in it,it takes only a few slight pressure turns. >> The Machinist Mill can remove a very small amount of material and >> you can install agraffe much faster and with more precision. >> It agraffe turns past proper position-use Agraffe Washers,they give >> you 1/4 of a turn increments..In 36 threads per inch x 4=those >> shims are .0144" thick >> Good Luck! >> I like Ed's suggestion to brake a few agraffes in an old,junked >> plate to get a feel of it.That is the only way to learn it. >> Hope ,it helps. >> isaac >> >> On Oct 3, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Andrew Anderson wrote: >> >>> seems to me that you would file the bottom of the agraffe or >>> countersink a little to have an agraffe snug up at the desired >>> angle to the strings. Am I missing something here? pushing brass >>> to the point of stripping the threads seems to miss a step... >>> >>> Andrew Anderson >>> >>> On Oct 3, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Ed Foote wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Dave writes: >>>> First came the assumptions.......1/4 inch standard Steinway >>>> Agraffe size......so I am told. >>>> I have a .215 >>>> 7/32 is .219 ........hmmm >>>> Something I should know here?<< >>>> >>>> What I found, disappointingly enough, was that all the supposed >>>> "7/32" agraffes, the threads are all undersized. This was not so >>>> in 1915, at least judging from the agraffes I have removed from >>>> those vintages. I have had trouble, several times in the past, >>>> getting new agraffes to be held securely enough in the plate. >>>> The threads would strip before I could snug them sufficiently in >>>> position. I was told that all agraffes are made in the same >>>> place,and orders from a variety of suppliers seemed to bear this >>>> out. >>>> Good luck, >>>> Ed Foote RPT >>> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101004/11183871/attachment.htm>
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