Now, if you happen to have two Mirafone 2nd lever platens boxed up and wrapped in Tiffany Blue — name your price.
This is not that important. I am looking to back up my recent purchase of two 1989 Swiss Franc coins for the levers I am making for my F tuba. The coins have disappeared, the seller is clueless, and I need to finish these levers. If they do not get used for this project they *will* get used for something. I do not have any nickel silver sheet or bar stock of the needed thickness; it is all too thick or too thin. Cannibalizing existing levers would be a perfect solution for where I am in this project.
Oh, and they need to be pretty inexpensive because I can purchase the platens brand new from Miraphone at a good price. But that would take a long time and add like $75 to my shipping cost. So old parts in someone's junk bin that might take work to get cleaned and modified into the form I need would still be faster and likely less costly.
So if you have two broken or chopped-up levers with good platens that you can let go cheaply, please PM me or post in this thread.
Oh, and if you only want to sell a complete set of junked levers (as in the photo below) send me a pic and let me know what you want for them. I just think two levers sans springs, hinge rod, lever rack, and two other levers are going to cost more than I can afford right now. I understand if you have a set that you want to sell or trade, but don't want to part out.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Wade
(Photo by Tabor Fisher.)
