Great video on construction

[fred v]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LFBNlildjA&t=6s

 

You may have seen this already but it was a first for me.

 

[Jake Middleton-Metcalfe]

It's a good old video, and a nice historical record. Many of the machines and pieces of equipment pictured are still in use today! Not that old surface grinder though, I think that wore out years ago.

[David Barnert]

That bit at the 2-minute mark, where she assembles the action box, putting the end down over the buttons...

 

She makes it look easy, but somewhere out there is another video I’ve seen of the many out-takes of her failed attempts to get the buttons lined up just right to get the end to slip on easily.

[M.Ammon]

14 hours ago, fred v said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LFBNlildjA&t=6s

 

You may have seen this already but it was a first for me.

 

Really interesting, I had never seen it.

Thanks for posting.

[David Barnert]

11 hours ago, David Barnert said:

That bit at the 2-minute mark, where she assembles the action box, putting the end down over the buttons...

 

She makes it look easy, but somewhere out there is another video I’ve seen of the many out-takes of her failed attempts to get the buttons lined up just right to get the end to slip on easily.

 

Here it is. https://youtu.be/B9h9p-vZv3k&t=596

[fred v]

I really hate putting the buttons on the levers. Not too bad if one slips off while working in there but I've had to replace one or two felts and had a tough time with it. After you do a thousand of them you learn how!!

Edited February 9 by fred v

[Matthew Heumann]

 

2 hours ago, fred v said:

I really hate putting the buttons on the levers. Not too bad if one slips off while working in there but I've had to replace one or two felts and had a tough time with it. After you do a thousand of them you learn how!!

FYI: I've always found it much faster and easy to just pop the pad off the lever, insert the button and then place the pad back on....give more working room to place the butt without tilting and fussing.

[Richard Mellish]

17 hours ago, Matthew Heumann said:

 

FYI: I've always found it much faster and easy to just pop the pad off the lever, insert the button and then place the pad back on....give more working room to place the butt without tilting and fussing.

That would make getting the button on much easier, but surely extra work in detaching and re-attaching the pad. OK for one at a time, but I often find that as I deal with one button I disturb another one. What I find even harder is replacing the bushing where the lever goes through the button.

[Matthew Heumann]

Not so much work: I just pull the pad off where the "O" leather connects the pad to the lever and put a slight touch of white glue to reattach, as simple as changing a strip of take and replacing and there is much less chance to displacing the lever bushing. But everyone has their own preference.

[alex_holden]

14 hours ago, Matthew Heumann said:

Not so much work: I just pull the pad off where the "O" leather connects the pad to the lever and put a slight touch of white glue to reattach, as simple as changing a strip of take and replacing and there is much less chance to displacing the lever bushing. But everyone has their own preference.

 

Seems a bit like taking the engine out of your car to check the oil because the dipstick is in an awkward location. 😉

[fred v]

21 hours ago, Matthew Heumann said:

Not so much work: I just pull the pad off where the "O" leather connects the pad to the lever and put a slight touch of white glue to reattach, as simple as changing a strip of take and replacing and there is much less chance to displacing the lever bushing. But everyone has their own preference.

That's worth a try for me

[Matthew Heumann]

13 hours ago, alex_holden said:

 

Seems a bit like taking the engine out of your car to check the oil because the dipstick is in an awkward location. 😉

Absolutely Correct, Alex, which is why I only do it for especially troublesome buttons. But I do make sure when refurbishing a concertina to replace the lever bushings after removing the old pads and before the new replacements.