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Hi.
I went and bought another Accordion. £17 well spent, just got to keep it hidden from the wife till she is in a good moode.
Important bits first.
It's cream with white grill and black detailing and lots of sparkely bits all over it.
Other bits.
22 white and 15 black keys. 80 bass buttons and a palm switch on the trebbles. On the front it says DELFINI LORETO ITALIA. Scratched on the back is MADE IN ITALY - 2292 I think it's italian.lol
Bad bits.
1 reed off block (refited) ! reed missing (found by seller and on it's way to me) Palm switch siezed ( sliders cleaned of slight corrosion working) No shoulder or bellows straps (4x leather belts 1 and half inch wide on way from china £3.80 ) these will replace all missing straps and leave some spare. 1 bass button stuck (freed )
one note sounding all the time. Will sort out when all reeds fitted.
BELLOWS LEAKING. One of the metal corners is missing. What is the best way to fit a new one? I found 2 video's on
U TUBE The first video showed the corners being fitted over glue then being pressed with a hydrolic press.
The second showed a corner being just glued into place with silicon sealer. What method would you guys recomend, I don't have access to a hydrolic press by the way.
 
Hi Phil
I use the strong glue & hydraulic press method... but also not having a hydraulic press, I use pliers for that bit.

Get a few extra corners http://www.cgmmusical.co.uk/CGM_Musical_Services/Bellow_Corners.html
...and have a bit of practice on some card. Make sure you get a matching size & profile or it gets on my OCD nerves when I see it.... :)

You can buy special pliers... & you need two different ones to complete the job... but theyre not much better than the ones youll have... and theyll cost more than the box did. And you can do a good job with a bit of practice & patience when doing just one or two.

Pictures would be nice, if youre so inclined/got time?
 
If you haven't got them already I'd suggest bearing in mind that there are four important measurements when buying metal bellows corners. The length of each side, the depth of the metal on each side, and the radius of the corner are the obvious ones. The fourth one is the width of the channel, the gap across the open end of the U before the corners are squeezed. You want that to be as close as possible to the thickness of the corner you're going to fit it on to.

It seems very obvious when put like this, but when I made some bellows from scratch a few years back I bought what I could get where the first three measurements were about right, and so didn't worry about the fourth one. The corners I got were too wide across the channel and I had to improvise a press arrangement that would narrow them whilst still keeping the overall right angle shape.
Tom
 
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