[CAUT] Down Weight Too High With New Hammers

Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu
Thu Aug 26 08:17:32 MDT 2010


Now that you mention 1098, I remember that when I changed out a set  
(the only one I ever did) 20 or more years ago (moths), that was  
definitely the case: they needed to go one way and not the other.  
There was no ambiguity about it.
Fred
On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Brent Fischer wrote:

>
>
> Fred,
>
>    You know I asked when I ordered these for
> 1098's if they didn't need to send the "out
> of square" style since I was told this years
> ago and this is the first 1098 I've change out
> in years and the originals are out of square,
> however, believing it might be a clearance
> issue was invalidated when the new bearings
> fit fine. I just took a new bearing, took the
> felt off, put a .147 drill through it and it's
> tilited just like the bal. pins used to be, but
> I don't want to get cross-threaded with my
> good friends at Steinway so I'm done.
>






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