I agree. When I was a kid in 1972 I used Freddies method on a new D at a local college. It has held up well all these years. Now the action is tired and I will get a chance to revisit this old friend this year and see how they held up. The problem was that the parts were never fit correctly in the mother ship. This issue could have easily been resolved in the factory at the time of manufacture. Water under the bridge, Aye Horace? Dale Erwin It wasn't until things were largely at crisis level that Freddie Drasche started teaching his home-grown technique of rolling brass center pins between two files.... Too bad...still an excellent concept...once fully worked through, it's very stable and will last a long time. Best. Horace >Regards Roger > > >At 10:01 AM 11/26/2010, you wrote: >>Roger & Ed, thanks for the encouragement. Here's a photo of the relocated >>knuckle and reinforced yoke. >> >>This is a 1971 L donated to the Cape Cod Conservatory. Heavy action, high >>friction readings but no binding components. Moving the knuckle should drop >>the friction to a reasonable level. The original knuckles were 11mm wide. >> >>This produced excessive after touch and a drop screw head buried >>into the flange. >>I'm confident the knuckle relocation and size reduction will bring the action >>around to a manageable regulation. >> >>One argument to be made for not replacing the shanks is that these >>are seasoned, >>new ones would travel and twist in the coming years. I think Teflon >>bushing are >>Ok, it's the unstable wood around them that causes the problems. >> >>Now on to graduating their weight and repinning. I'll also be >>installing underlever >>assist springs and replacing the single string felts. Fun & Games. >>-- >> >>Regards, >> >>Jon Page >> >> >>__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>signature database 5651 (20101126) __________ >> >>The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >>http://www.eset.com >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101128/ef945ed8/attachment.htm>
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