Bernard Loffet (a kowned french 02-03 rows diatonic accordion builder)
sells them online

springs 0.6mm 065mm 0.70mm available

Wire all gauges

But you should find the same thing on your side of the ocean I suppose,
the shipping cost will be more expensive than the piano wire.

Bests

christophe

HI all..

Well I had found info in melnet and what they do is put a bend 1/8 of inch bend in the scissor spring on the button side. and that does work. They guy,, can't remember name and can't find article anymore,, that did this took it all apart..

But was suggested on there that butter knife was used if you did not want to take the springs out.. I could do that no prob I have a bunch of springs made for the 114, but just trying to do it with butter knife.. or whatever works.. ;-)

Not a bigey by no means.

thanks again.
Johnnie

I've adjusted them in place by using needle nose pliers to ever so slightly make a bend in the wire arm. Bending a wire arm toward the other will soften the tension, bending away from each other gives more tension.

Ok Bryan

I tried your suggestion and worked great.. Great feel on the buttons now..

Thanks a bunch.. Think I will forget 'butter knives' lol

Johnnie

I have also done this, but I use bending pliers, which are similar to needle nose except that the jaws are tapered and cylindrical in cross section. The rounded jaws prevent the possibilty of nicking the wire, which can cause "stress risers" which can result in the spring breaking later at the nick. I also use these pliers to form new custom springs from music wire. I have made little bending fork tools to modify springs in place when there isn't enought room to use the bending pliers. I sometimes post info and photos of my repair jobs on melnet. You could search there for more details.

Hohner makes diatonic accordion springs in three degrees of stiffness. The Corona model, for example, uses light, medium & heavy gauge springs respectively, for each of its 3 rows. The HA-114 uses the heavy gauge (approx .025" dia.) springs since it has fairly long & heavy pallet valves. I've found that substituting the light gauge (approx .022" dia.) springs works fine & improves the action considerably. I used to order the springs directly from Hohner (part #TA20151), but I have been winding my own replacement springs from #9 gauge (.022" dia.) music wire with considerable success for some while.

here is the url for the Article I mentioned back there about spring bend..

http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,9862.msg122091.html#msg122091