geoff lowes Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Cutting and gluing all those valley hinges and gussets is a pain and leaves lots of possible sources of leakage. I combine the valley hinges and gussets for each fold into one piece. A piece of leather 500mm long and 50mm wide, skived at each side and ends is glued into the circumference of the valley of each fold .One piece has replaced 6 valley hinges , 6 gussets and a lot of frustration. Do all the folds this way ,apply top runs then end runs and that's it. For a 6 fold bellows I count 92 separate pieces as being replaced by only 22.Would like to hear comments ,criticisms etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hornett Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Geoff, If you would like to call around, I'll show you how I do it. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fdracula110 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Did you happen to take pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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