Hi Ian
It comes to mind that if you could break off the original spring leaving the
rivet intact
then you could dress the underside of the rivet head square and fit a spring
with a "keyhole"
mounting hole.
The larger part could fit over the rivet head to slide the smaller round the
stem.
The spring could then be soft soldered in place, taking care to clean off
all flux residues.
This is not an approach I've actually used but in the circumstances it will
probably work.
Cheers,
Dave
Dave Shaw, Northumbrian and Scottish Smallpipes, Irish Pipes and SHAW
Whistles
www.daveshaw.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Lawther" <irlawt...@comcast.net>
To: "nsp" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 2:51 AM
Subject: [NSP] Respringing a key
One of the springs on my chanter has become very weak and is, I fear,
about to break. I have the choice of returning it to the maker for
respringing (a trans Atlantic posting job), getting a maker here in the
US to do it (a couple of options - more if I consider other local folk
woodwind makers) or trying to do it myself.........
In considering doing it myself I have "Cocks and Bryan" and Mike
Nelson's website as guides but both are aimed at making keys not
refitting them. Mine is chrome plated and I don't particularly want to
drill through to put a new rivet in. How do people usually do it....is
it feasible to use the stub of the original rivet to mount the spring?
Any thoughts and advice welcome
Ian
www.bagpipediscs.com
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