Dumb - Dumb - Dumb

[Edward Carwithen]

  I was so proud of myself.  I did a really good, and quick (for me) job on
a Story and Clark spinet, you know, one of those with the rotten plastic
parts.  I had replaced at least a dozen of those in the past couple of
years.  Today I didn't break one... until F7.  Then C8 whippen flange
cracked.  
  OK, no problem, I had the parts in the truck, took out the action, placed
it on the convenient picnic table outside, and replaced the parts.  15
minutes tops.  Cleaned up, and put it back in the piano.  Now 30 or 40
hammers won't return to the rest rail.  
  It is a cold and damp day here, and the inside of the house is nice and
toasty from the wood stove heater.  All I can figure is that the wood and
felts were reacting to the cold and damp outside and swelled up.
  I waited 1/2 hour for the action to re-acclimate, and it was getting
better.  Will check again tomorrow to see if things have returned to normal.
  If I had only done the work on the kitchen floor (standing practically on
my head) I would have looked like a champ instead of a chump.  Dum Dum Dum.....
Ed Carwithen
Oregon