Yesterday I had a good look around the Seage's Silent Ringing Apparatus at our tower, St. John the Evangelist, Whittle-le-Woods, Lancashire, with a view to finding which bell would be the easiest to get a Seage's working again; No. 3 has won the prize. The main reason for this is that there's a straight drop from Bell Frame in the Belfry to the Repeater Bell in the ringing room. Some of the other bells have pulleys which turn the wire enroute from Belfry to ringing room, so these will be left until later.
The original wire used to pull the Repeater Bell was approx 18 swg, 1 mm in todays speak. I am going to use 1 mm 7 x 7 Stainless Steel wire rope for this refurbished installation. Wire rope will flow round the turning blocks more easily and stainless steel should not corrode like the mild steel did. We'll need to come up with different means of terminating the wire rope, possibly copper crimps.
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