[CAUT] Repetition Alignment

[Barbara Richmond]

Hey Mr. Bill,

Are you picking on me?  ;-)     As I said, the only nice alignment was the shank/hammer rest felt--maybe because that's what the customer sees when they look into the piano.

When I was done the knuckle/lever and the heel/capstan alignments were good (and I thanked God for my good fortune). Except for a couple strays, the jack tender/let off button was good, too.  Isn't that what spacing and traveling are supposed to do?  I think you'll agree that a lever hitting the neighboring knuckle isn't a good thing.  

I'm not familiar with the term cradling the jack. Fire away.

Miss Barbara


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: william ballard 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Repetition Alignment




  On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Barbara Richmond wrote:
    The repetitions were all over the place.  They were so bad, my thoughts were that they had never been spaced and traveled correctly to begin with.  When I spaced and traveled them, there wasn't much traveling paper to be seen.


  Getting back to the subject, Barbrie, are the rep levers parallel to the rep bodies? If they aren't and you "space the reps to the shanks" (ie., put the levers dead under the knuckles) the heels may look pretty funny on the caps. And if they aren't sitting square on the caps, the caps will push them off to one side next winter when the flanges loosen up.


  Levers are made parallel the same way jacks are cradled.


  william ballard
  wbps at vermontel.net


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