<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 29/10/2003 15:58:57 GMT Standard Time, david@b... writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Bell books often describe what type of gudgeons a bell has. Sensible enough<BR>
with a timber headstock, but where metal headstocks are concerned isn't the<BR>
oft-used tern 'fixed steel gudgeons' rather pointless? Isn't it self-evident<BR>
that they will be of steel and will be fixed? If they are mentioned, perhaps<BR>
'bolted', 'riveted', 'welded' or (in the case of many bar headstocks<BR>
'integral' would be a more meaningful description</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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We rehung a bell a few years back which had a revolving gudgeon as opposed to fixed gudgeons. The gudgeon passed all the way through the wooden headstock and was fixed to the frame at both ends - ball bearings being mounted in the ends of the headstock - a cunning idea for a turret which lacked space.<BR>
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I would describe the WBF type of gudgeons as being fixed also - being cast into place as opposed to the bolt in varieties that some bellhangers now use.<BR>
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Matthew</FONT></HTML>