On Thu, 5 Oct 1995 ATodd@UH.EDU wrote: > Does anyone out there have experience with plugging and reboring hammers? > I have a complete action that was rebuilt and later we decided to have a > complete new one made, keyframe, keys, stack, everything. Since the new > hammers were not reused, I would like to pull them and use them on a piano > here at the school. The hammers have no noticeable wear on them and it > would help me if I could reuse them. Good Luck! I would assume that the hammers in question have been tapered and shaped in addition to being bored. On the boring gigs I've seen, trying to get a hammer whose sides are *not* parallel to stay put will be next to impossible. (You actually meant that the *old* hammers weren't reused, right?) If I were in your shoes, I'd look around for a piano whose hammers could be "refreshed" with a newer set of hammers/shanks/flanges and just put the whole sheebang in, saving the hassle of removing, plugging, reboring and remounting a set of hammers. If the centerpins are questionable, it would still be less time-consuming to rebush and repin. As I said, good luck!!! Ron Torrella "What's your point???" Piano Technician - Larry King, radio talkshow host torrella@prairienet.org (_Larry King Live_)
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