:Scraping Hamilton jacks/butts

[Don Rose]

>Currently Baldwin is still sending out the little buckskin squares and glue
>in a packet with instructions free of charge if you submit the serial #, but
>labor hasn't been covered since 93/ the end of the ten year warranty on any
>given piano affected.  The labor, if  you don't do this all the time, is
>something like 13 hours assuming you do both the catchers and the butt
>buckskins.  The labor, if you do this all the time, may still be 10 hours.

Is there a factory assembly of hammer and butt with flange attached--if it is ten hours on a
22 year old piano why not consider giving it new hammers, too.

Regards, Don Rose, RPT drose@sask.maple.net