RE: [Harp-L] New Harmonica products

[Niall Tracey <internationiall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Springless Slides



This sounds genuinely inspired -- why did no-one think of this before?


There's a lot of information in a short space, so can I check I understand you?


>   Too strong of a spring will break through the wall of a wood or  

> plastic comb chromatic over time.


Too strong a magnet would do the same, wouldn't it?  Is your point here not maybe more that some chromatics are incorrectly specced than that springs are bad?


> When a spring is engaged there is a brief point  

> where it lifts the slide and pushes it against the  U channel causing  
> friction at the spring hole and between the slide and U channel.


I have no idea what a U-channel is, but if I understand right, your saying that basically the spring doesn't operate in a straight line, so the slide doesn't operate in a straight line either, and rubs.  Correct?  I can see why that's a problem.
 

> What I subbed for springs are magnets.  Magnets allow the slide to  
> float in the channel.
... 

> Right now I'm working on slide button to fit over the outside magnet  
> to make it less obvious.  If not,  the magnets are still stylish  
> enough to leave as is, but the craftsman in me would like to provide a  
> more finished product if possible.
 

I'm having a hard time picturing how the assembly's put together -- when can we expect to see it on the site?


Cheers,
Níall.
 		 	   		  
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