[Bell Historians] Re: Clapper failure information request

[Richard Offen]

> It's all very interesting.   
> 
> I was watching our tenor clapper at Swan Bells on Saturday (very easy 
> to do there!).   It is a fairly thick-stemmed, lightly 
> counterbalanced clapper of SG iron, manufactured by Whitechapel in 
> the late 1980s when the bells came out here.   The clapper rebounds 
> about two inches on impact, which is probably why the bell sounds so 
> good.
> 
> I shall not tempt providence by commenting on its durability, but 
> suffice to say it gets far more use than most bells of its weight!
> 
> Richard
>

PS. The other advantage of this clapper is that I can get the bell up 
right, by myself, with relatively little effort!

R