Brass Gong

[weidner]

Originally Posted by Snail Trail

Our local foundry is a very good old school firm. When we had ours coppied for the Aveling he recast the bell twice until he was happy with the ring ( much to the annoyance of Basil!!)

Old school ? When I was at Whitechapel we still had to pick the beans out of the horse shit before we mixed it with the clay and the cow hair . I will admit that we cast the hand bells and gongs in that new fangled sand stuff . Taylors at loughborough are mere upstarts , Whitechapel go back to Queen Elizabeth's time , so must be the oldest foundry in the country .

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by weidner

If anyone is ever going to the trouble of casting a gong , then it would be worth going to a bell foundry . Whitechapel still cast and finish hand bells , and I seem to remember that they have patterns for gongs , which would be cast similarly . Bell metal , which is 22% tin , rings better than anything else ( even better than Fowler gears ) I would bet that Whitechapel's gong patterns are imperial . They would tune it too if you wanted .

Surely it would make more sense for me to go visit John Taylor & Co?

[8_10 Brass Cleaner]

Nah. Pay £25 for the one D valve found.

[Burrell8]

I have converted Hedd's drawings in to CAD and will send them to him, here is a PDF of the CAD, quite nice shapes for just an' ol' clanger!

[Burrell8]

Oh and I've ordered some "6" scale" bells from the above link provided (thank you).

[Bosiboz]

This is the ding a ling a ding dong that I've got. I don't know what its origins were

[8_10 Brass Cleaner]

David. Shouldn,t a 4CD have a bell like the Bermuda Bell I posted below?. With the button poking through the rear spectical plate

[Bosiboz]

Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner

David. Shouldn,t a 4CD have a bell like the Bermuda Bell I posted below?. With the button poking through the rear spectical plate

Yes but beggars can't be choosers. I'll hang on 'till something better comes along.

[Bosiboz]

Look what I found today underneath the old Garrett canopy a gong / bell. I knew the brass plate which mounts on the back plate was there but couldn't remember the bell being there. I thought there was just some rusty guts. Does anyone know if this is a genuine Garrett style bell?

[Burrell8]

That is the same as is fitted on the rear spectacle plate of a friends 4CD. There should be a brass nob on a rod coming through the middle of the brass ring that you push to operate the ding dong bell!