[Bell Historians] Garter Holes

[Simon Adams]

It should be detectable from the original drawings

Simon
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Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:49 PM
Subject: [Bell Historians] Garter Holes


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> We have a problem at Edgbaston, it feels like the front three swing 
> at a different speed than the back five.
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> Last night we had a broken rope so I went up to fix it and noticed 
> that the third had a second garter hole higher up on the wheel. 
> Looking at them both I cannot tell which one was the original 
> Taylor's garter hole and which one had been cut since installation. 
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> I put the rope through the other garter hole as an experiment and now 
> the bell has much less handstroke, it seems to be easier to ring and 
> fits in with the back ones now.
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> Tonight I'll investigate the trebles, (couldn't do it last night as 
> they were up) and if they have two garter holes as I suspect they 
> have, I'll thread the rope through the higher one giving the trebles 
> less handstroke.
> We're ringing a peal tonight so it'd be interesting to see the 
> results.
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> Will Taylor's know the original positions of the garter holes?
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> Aye
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> Sam
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