[CAUT] Friday Puzzler

[Paul T Williams]

No cloth! Original brass rail.Some fuzz and dirt that I cleaned out, but 
nothing changed!  Looking at the action from the front or back, the wips 
are either forward or back by 1-2mm...I'm not even sure which ones are 
correctly located!!  Side-to-side alignment with knuckles are fine.  As I 
said, this is a puzzler! 

Could it be a problem with the drilled holes that may have not been 
exactly aligned?  Is this something Steinway did in the 60's??

Paul




From:
William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net>
To:
David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>, caut at ptg.org
Date:
07/31/2009 03:48 PM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] Friday Puzzler



Hey Paul,

It's a stretch, but you might check to see that someone didn't put on some 
of S&S's new hammer rail cloth.  It's rather too thick for the application 
and can cause all sorts of alignment issues on the hammer rail, and likely 
just as much on the wippen rail if it was put on there.  Worth checking.  
As David asks, how are they askew?  Front to back, side to side, 
tilted???  The photo or more explanation would help.

William R. Monroe


On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:24 PM, David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> 
wrote:
Traveling issues?   Askew as in not centered under the hammer 
shank/knuckle?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Paul T Williams" <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 7/31/2009 10:25:25 AM
Subject: [CAUT] Friday Puzzler


>Hi gang!

>I'm puzzled!  I'm now working on a 1966 Steinway M with a strange thing
>going on.  I looked and the wippens and they're all askew and not in any
>kind of even line on the brass rail. Some places, they're nearly 2mm off.
>I tried to attach a picture, but it was too big. I'm still getting used 
to
>my new camera and iMac (having been a life-time PC guy).

>I checked the wips themselves, and they're all good.  I can't "see"
>anything off on the brass rail, but only took off 3 wips in a row to 
check
>the rail out.

>Have any of you ever come across this?  I've got a message out to our 
tech
>support guy about the picture, but perhaps you know what I'm describing.

>Thanks for any help.

>Paul




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