Henrik Müller Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 With so much time on my hands I got the itch yesterday and occupied the kitchen table for a number of hours in order to make what I have been threatening myself with for a couple of years: No circles are round, no right angles are 90 degrees, but as an old saying in Denmark says: "You don't notice that when the music's playing..." I still need to get proper pliers with round jaws in order to make the "hook" correctly, but still... The first spring came out like this: Mind, the wire is too thin - 0.5 mm - 0.7 mm would be more suitable, but it's close enough to verify that the thing works. /Henrik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marien Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Do you have an idea where to buy phosphor bronze spring .7 wire ? Marien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik Müller Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Do you have an idea where to buy phosphor bronze spring .7 wire ?Marien Ah, yes - the big question. But I recall that I recently found one supplier - the catalogue/site is in my Mac at work and I am now very motivated to go back next week and find it - /Henrik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 "You don't notice that when the music's playing..." Excellent, Henrik. Takes me back 35 years to when I was working in a local factory as a summer job; one man there could come up with all sorts of jigs to make different types of coils. Now I know what Tommy Williams' "Spring Time in Battersea" was really about. Regards, Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon C. Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 With so much time on my hands I got the itch yesterday and occupied the kitchen table for a number of hours in order to make what I have been threatening myself with for a couple of years: No circles are round, no right angles are 90 degrees, but as an old saying in Denmark says: "You don't notice that when the music's playing..." I still need to get proper pliers with round jaws in order to make the "hook" correctly, but still... The first spring came out like this: Mind, the wire is too thin - 0.5 mm - 0.7 mm would be more suitable, but it's close enough to verify that the thing works. /Henrik Now if you can fit it with a CNC stepper motor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik Müller Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 "You don't notice that when the music's playing..."...Now I know what Tommy Williams' "Spring Time in Battersea" was really about. ... Peter, If am afraid that that one is a registered Jim Lucas-joke /Henrik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 "You don't notice that when the music's playing..."...Now I know what Tommy Williams' "Spring Time in Battersea" was really about. ... Peter, If am afraid that that one is a registered Jim Lucas-joke /Henrik Thought you would get that one, Henrik. Tommy Williams, the great Maccann Duet player, is best known for "Spring Time in Battersea", which was a "party piece". He worked for Lachenal; see link below: http://www.concertina.com/wayne/Wayne-Tomm...parts-1-2-3.pdf Regards, Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik Müller Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 "You don't notice that when the music's playing..."...Now I know what Tommy Williams' "Spring Time in Battersea" was really about. ... Peter, If am afraid that that one is a registered Jim Lucas-joke /Henrik Thought you would get that one, Henrik. Tommy Williams, the great Maccann Duet player, is best known for "Spring Time in Battersea", which was a "party piece". He worked for Lachenal; see link below: http://www.concertina.com/wayne/Wayne-Tomm...parts-1-2-3.pdf Regards, Peter. Oh, I do get it, Peter - I know the tune, I have the record (still trying to decipher what Tommy says), I am just saying that Jim Lucas beat you to it: he introduced the joke at the Scandinavian Squeeze-in some years ago when we were in spring-talking... /Henrik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael sam wild Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Nice one Henrik. It looks a bit like that one that Geoff Crabbe had at Bradfield but I llke the idea of using wood So sensible, obviously a lateral thinker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik Müller Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Nice one Henrik. It looks a bit like that one that Geoff Crabbe had at Bradfield but I llke the idea of using wood So sensible, obviously a lateral thinker! Well, yeah - I did take a long, hard look at Geoff's winder. And wood? At heart, I am metal man, when it comes to precision stuff, but I didn't have the patience and time and funds to get someone to do it and I did send a loving thought to this /Henrik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Oh, I do get it, Peter - I know the tune, I have the record (still trying to decipher what Tommy says), I am just saying that Jim Lucas beat you to it: he introduced the joke at the Scandinavian Squeeze-in some years ago when we were in spring-talking... /Henrik Oh! I thought you meant "in the style of Jim Lucas". I've heard the recording, and even I have a little problem with Tommy's accent, but then he was a Londoner! Regards, Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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