Damper Lift Problem

[David Ilvedson]

Retro-fit those pitmans and you won't have that problem again.  Archives
have the info and an article was in the Journal some years ago.

David I.

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On 9/18/01 at 10:44 AM Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:

>Avery,
>
>  I just pulled the action out of a Duo-Art S&S M (player long 
>gone...).  The brass pitman is enough smaller than the hole in the keybed 
>that there is a LOT of variation possible in angle.
>
>If I pulled the top of the pitman toward me, the tray moved easily and 
>quite far.  If I pushed it back, the pedal became VERY heavy and hardly 
>lifted the tray.  Unfortunately, I've deleted your original post, but 
>shifting that pitman that way sure gave an instant global lift change.
>
>
>Conrad Hoffsommer -
>I live in my own little world, but it's OK, they know me here.
>mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu