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size=2>Accidents I know about.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>1, St
Peters St Albans</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Sudden
failure of 5th gudgeon.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>the
bell ground to a halt with minimal damage and no injury.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Cause,
when Whitechapel put the bell on balls they turned down the existing gudgeon to
to small a diameter to fit a sleeve to make it take a standard baring. It
fatigued and snapped cleanly.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2
Waltham Abby</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Failed
Gudgeon</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>the
bell came to a halt severely damaging the wheel. no injury. Taylor
installation cause unknown</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>3
Hitchin tenor came away from headstock.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Nothing came through and there was no injury.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Shortly after a professional rehang. I cannot remember the cause of the
failure.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>4 the
well documented failure at Settle.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>No
injury and minimal damage.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
point I am making is that a catastrophic failure of a component when a bell
is being ruing is most unlikely to involve injury and the damage is not colossal
or massively expensive, normally limited to only the single bell and
fittings effected.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
fact that these are all failures of professional work is not relevant as only
about 1 out of 20 jobs are armature work, and my sample is much to
small.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>There
have been accidents working on bells, and the odd fatality.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Has
any church ever been held responsible in uk and had to pay
out?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Another point worth making, if a professional job goes wrong, large sums
are involved and the trail of responsibility can be unclear and expensive to
resolve.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If an
armature job goes wrong then much less money is involved and in all probability
little will be actually lost, in that unringable bells remain unringable, but no
worse than before.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249215108-14032007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>the
worst I know about is a project which died after dismantling a lot of the
ringing gear. Those who were the "movers" just gave up.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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