------=_NextPart_000_003C_01C56822.3B9D79C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Fettes College are on bar headstocks - 1955. I expect, with a degree of res= earch one could find a more or less continuous use of bar headstocks whethe= r wrought iron or steel. I don't think it is a cost related issue though. W= hat else would you use for hanging little bells? It would be possible to ma= ke smaller box section cast headstocks or use a solid cast headstock, for w= hich we also have patterns, but then these have to be machined and fitted w= ith gudgeons. Since there is no issue with the strength of the material, co= mmon sense suggests which is the best option. Do we have a contender for the heaviest bell hung for full circle ringing o= n a bar headstock? I'll start with the treble of 10 at Huddersfield. Andrew ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Peter Kirby=20 To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20 Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:23 AM Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] The 26 bells of St Wilfrid's Harrogate >> David Bryant [They had stopped doing it generally by this point. They started again t= o some extent in the 70s with very light eights such as Lightcliffe and Pat= ely Bridge (bar stocks on all bells at both), but at Harrogate it certainly= appears to have been done for cheapness.] I think Lightcliffe were done on the cheap as well! Peter Kirby Ringer @ Lightcliffe 1971-present date ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- Yahoo! Groups Links =B7 To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bellhistorians/ =20=20=20=20 =B7 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: bellhistorians-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com =20=20=20=20 =B7 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of S= ervice.=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bellhistorians/ =20=20=20=20=20=20 b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: bellhistorians-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com =20=20=20=20=20=20 c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service= .=20 ------=_NextPart_000_003C_01C56822.3B9D79C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Fettes College are on bar headstocks - 195= 5. I=20 expect, with a degree of research one could find a more or less continuous = use=20 of bar headstocks whether wrought iron or steel. I don't think it is a cost= =20 related issue though. What else would you use for hanging little bells? It = would=20 be possible to make smaller box section cast headstocks or use a solid cast= =20 headstock, for which we also have patterns, but then these have to be machi= ned=20 and fitted with gudgeons. Since there is no issue with the strength of the= =20 material, common sense suggests which is the best option.
 
Do we have a contender for the heaviest be= ll hung=20 for full circle ringing on a bar headstock? I'll start with the treble = ;of=20 10 at Huddersfield.
 
Andrew
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>> David= =20 Bryant

 [They had stopped doing it= =20 generally by this point. They started again to some extent in the 70s wit= h=20 very light eights such as Lightcliffe and Pately Bridge (ba= r=20 stocks on all bells at both), but at Harrogate it certainly appears to ha= ve=20 been done for cheapness.]

 

I think Lightcliffe were done on t= he=20 cheap as well!

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