Broken jack springs

[Ronald R Shiflet]

Larry,
	It seems like a whole pile of those pianos were made and they
definately competed for the lower end of the market.  I grew up on one myself.  I too have replaced numerous jack springs and hammer rail
springs.  The metal seems to *crystalize*.

Ron Shiflet

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:17:50 -0800 Cedar Mill Piano Tuning
<tunerlg@ibm.net> writes:
>Dear Pianotechies,
>
>I have a customer with a Story and Clark console.  Back in 1980 a
>technician
>left a record of having to replace a broken jack spring.  The customer
>tells me
>that several have broken since then, and now she has two more that are
>broken.
>Fortunately, she realizes, even suggested herself, that they should
>all be
>replaced, so I'll be doing that job.
>
>But I have a question -  Why would the jack springs be breaking in the
>first
>place?
>
>Any advice as to which glue is best for jack springs?  Anyone got a
>handy
>method of snapping new jack springs into place?  I'm hoping that a
>drop of
>deglueing solution (wallpaper remover in water) will loosen the old
>ones.
>
>Larry Goss
>Cedar MIll, Oregon
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