[Harp-L] Re:Cover standoffs on Farrell 270 - what are they called?

[Snaruhn@xxxxxxx]

Hi Winslow,

you know your inquiry, so I neeedn´t repeat the text.

Well, I wonder why you asked how they are called instead of where
to get them. Before I answer you, a little funny intermezzo regarding
"what are they called":

Perhaps we know that scenery when a charming older lady enters a shop
where household articles, nails, bolts, nuts, tools ect. are offered.

The salesman starts the conversation: Hello, mam, how can I help you?
Yeah, hmmmh, ammmh, I´m looking for this thing, you know, which allows
to position a little cupboard or the like in my citchen or so...        
I see, mam, you need something that fixes this thing at the citchen wall. 
No, no, not to fix at the wall.......  Perhaps, you´ll hang it up? I dunno, 
yes, 
maybe. My neighbour showed me that thing and told me that I should ask 
for ....uuuuh, I forgot what this dam thing was called. Did he mean a screw, 
perhaps? A screw, hmmmh? Show me one.....no, no, that thing didn´t look
like what you call a screw. Anyway, it was relative small and at one end 
there
was a little ...I would say it looked like a kind of ...orrrps 
OK, OK, mam, calm down, I think finally we´ll decode that thing but now, 
sorry,
I´ve to close. To morrow we will......

< Seems I also have a pre-war 64 rebuilt by Charlie Leighton that also
< has these spacers. >

Hey, that´s it. What about "spacer"? And a pre-war 64 with these spacers....?
OK, Charlie Leighton had the idea to replace those silly little sheet metal 
cutouts by this "sort of" knurled brass knobs.

Why do you look for such spacers? Take any suitable brass screws, drill holes
into the reedplates and....Don´t worry, be happy!

Siegfried 


PS. You can also try it tomorrow in that shop with that lady .........OK, OK