Sustain rods

[Wimblees@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-05-16 11:06:53 EDT, you write:

>A rather common problem around here is upright damper/sustain systems out of

>whack, the familiar uneven rise of the line of dampers. After tightening all

>relevant hardware (which doesn't usually help much) I regulate it. But I
>don't
>quite understand why this develops or how to fairly simply solve it other
>than
>by regulation.
>
>Removing the rods to see if they're warped might take quite a while; and if
>they are, what then, just replace and regulate anyway? Is straightening one
>of these rods practical? Or is the problem compression of the felt in the
>mounting brackets, which doesn't seem like it could account for all the
>out-of-lineness.
>
>Thanks
>Robin Fox
>
>
>

Robin:

In the few times I have had that problem, I have found that one of  the
brackets that hold the damper rod is either bent or broken. Sometimes they
come that way from the factory. It does take a little time, but that is the
only way to fix the problem.

Willem Blees  RPT
St. Louis