[Bell Historians] Resin pads

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Susan & Christopher Dalton" 
<dalton.family at v...> wrote:
> 
> > What make you think it's the resin pad causing this?
> > 
> > R Offen
> 
> [1. There is nothing else could be, unless all five bells were 
cracked
> (which they aren't), and anyway I have observed the same phenomoenon
> elsewhere.
> 
> 2. Said pads cover too wide an area of the crowns (i.e. they come 
out
> further towards the shoulder than you can get away with).
> 
> It is, of course, all part of the fact that modern bellhangers 
dislike
> canons, and try to force them onto metal stocks which they weren't 
designed
> for. Certainly a resin pad of the kind I am describing is an 
unacceptable
> mutilation of an old bell, visually as well as tonally. Also, how 
do you
> get them off when you need to? C D]

Sorry, I hadn't realised that the pads were on bells that retained 
their canons!

R