Chris Hobson
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I thought that I would continue with the story of the wind organ project in a new post as the old thread was getting a bit long and was needing a lot of scrolling to get to the updates.
Picture 1. Jigs, no not lively Celtic dances but little frames to hold components together while glue sets. Top right is a little jig that I first made in order to attach the pads to the levers on the valves. I soon realised that doing the pieces one at a time would take forever. It also didn't hold the parts in position accurately enough. The sandwich style assembly with the four clamps, top left, is clamping the little leather pads onto the levers, one at each end so it is done in two stages. Rather than glueing fiddly little pieces on one at a time, I found it more efficient to glue the levers onto a strip of leather, bottom right, and then seperate and trim them with a modelling knife. The levers and pads are put together in two stages in batches of ten or eleven in the two jigs in the foreground.
Picture 2. The first eleven valves installed. The pads are now in a nice straight line. If you look at the picture on the earlier thread you can see that the pads are uneven and this wasn't really satisfactory.
Picture 1. Jigs, no not lively Celtic dances but little frames to hold components together while glue sets. Top right is a little jig that I first made in order to attach the pads to the levers on the valves. I soon realised that doing the pieces one at a time would take forever. It also didn't hold the parts in position accurately enough. The sandwich style assembly with the four clamps, top left, is clamping the little leather pads onto the levers, one at each end so it is done in two stages. Rather than glueing fiddly little pieces on one at a time, I found it more efficient to glue the levers onto a strip of leather, bottom right, and then seperate and trim them with a modelling knife. The levers and pads are put together in two stages in batches of ten or eleven in the two jigs in the foreground.
Picture 2. The first eleven valves installed. The pads are now in a nice straight line. If you look at the picture on the earlier thread you can see that the pads are uneven and this wasn't really satisfactory.
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