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Maintenance Course & Dry Weather Checks (update)

Maintenance Course
 
Please see attached poster for our maintenance course – Saturday 18th October, Wantage Church, Oxfordshire, 10am to 3pm. 
  • Inspection and maintenance
  • Working safely in a tower
  • Rope management – identifying wear points
  • Guide frames
  • Improving the ringing circle
  • Sound control
  • Improving bells – clapper alignment, odd-struckness
**Please do not reply directly to this email… details of how to sign up are on the poster.**
 
Dry Weather Belfry Checks
 

In the last week, we have been notified of four dry weather incidents:

  • Wooden frame distortion causing a bell to hit the frame
  • Headstock shrinkage causing a badly loose gudgeon
  • Stay nuts nearly falling off
  • Wheel nuts falling off
 
Please see my email dated 14th May 2025 for dry weather checks.
 
Regards,
Anthony Williamson
Towers and Belfries secretary