To cut lead you may just use scissors or a knife. However, that will crimp it closed. So you will have to use an ice pick or awl or something to open it back up. This will allow you to see how thick the walls are. If they are extremely thin, the deterioration may be highly progressed and you may decide to replace with neoprene if you find really thin walls.
-----Original Message----- From: e-valves@yahoogroups.com [mailto:e-valves@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of sstrat44 Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 3:35 PM To: e-valves@yahoogroups.com Subject: [e-valves] Re: Lead tubing
--- In e-valves@yahoogroups.com, "D.L. Bullock" <d.l.bullock@...> wrote: > > However, if yours is good and you want to tap into it. you may cut out a section and push a > section of rubber tracker tubing over the lead and then to a T or a Y to run to your > solenoids. >
Thanks for the advice. For now I'm going to steer clear of it just to avoid damaging it. I'm real leery of taking hacksaw to thin lead pipe--not sure how to do a neat job of cutting it, plus any mod to the piping is a major point of no return. :)
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Hi Steve. Nice looking job, and some really good ideas there! I love to make "things" out of "junque", and epoxy and aluminum figure big in most of my plans!...
A different approachHaving dealt with electrifying players for use on theater organs, I have some experience in what you are doing. In your solenoid there are...
D.L.-- Whoa, I can see that I could have run into all of those problems without your advice. I was shooting for a tube run no longer than 2 feet, but I¹m now...
Greetings Steven, tried sending you e-mail at the address you have as a return on group mail. keep getting it returned. i can post the letter to the group but ...
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Greetings sstrat44, I also took the tracker bar interface on as a challenge and it sure was one. I used it three times to demonstrate my system and have it in...
I would suggest that if you can get solenoids small enough to stack up in the space where the roll goes, or failing that, removing the take up spool and...
You know since I¹ve been chatting today with folks on this list, I¹ve been thinking of just that, eliminating the tubing all together. Back to the drawing...
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The tubes in my piano appear to be metal. Grayish, look pretty soft. Whenever I have the player action out to work on it I steer way clear of touching those...
Greetings Steven, There was a lot of gray rubber tube used which would probably be hard as a rock now. If what you have is metallic and looks like lead,...
Greetings Steven, There was a lot of gray rubber tube used which would probably be hard as a rock now. If what you have is metallic and looks like lead,...
Definitely lead, I scratched it a bit and it's shiny gray underneath. (sorry if this posts twice, I thought I sent it but maybe not). It appears to be coated...
Let us not be whipped into a frenzy from media hype about the so-called "dangers" of lead tubing. You are never going to be able to handle enough of the lead...
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Greetings Bob, As usual in our society, the media masks the real issue in trying to sell advertising. Lead is a poison and causes serious health problems. It...
Hi, I tend to agree with Mr Bullock about the dangers of lead tubing. I took all the lead off my piano several years ago but I took modest precautions. I...
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... out a section and push a ... Y to run to your ... Thanks for the advice. For now I'm going to steer clear of it just to avoid damaging it. I'm real leery...
To cut lead you may just use scissors or a knife. However, that will crimp it closed. So you will have to use an ice pick or awl or something to open it back...
Greetings D.L., Old oxidized lead tubing may be a different matter but lead is really easy to work with, which is why they used it. It bends and solders easily...
Last week I went to the "PCB-West" conference in the silicon valley. Sponsored by the "Printed Circuit design" magazine, They had a "Free" day where one could...
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