Dumb - Dumb - Dumb careful

[pianoman]

Please watch the concentrated heat on those plastic parts.  Things can get
much worse, quick!
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"A diamond is coal that stayed there", give me the patience to stay.

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> From: Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Dumb - Dumb - Dumb
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 12:37 AM
> 
> Dear Ed,
> 
> You're not alone in dumbness, I assure you. 
> 
> If this ever happens again, see if the inhabitants of the house own a
hair
> dryer. Use it as hot and fast as it will go, aimed right down at the
hammer
> butts, and in 15 or 20 minutes you should have everything back to normal,
> maybe even a little less sluggish than before you took it outside.
> 
> Susan
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> At 10:10 PM 1/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >  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
> >
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> 
> Susan Kline
> P.O. Box 1651
> Philomath, OR 97370
> skline@proaxis.com
> 
> "Cheer up! Things may be getting worse at a slower rate."
> 			-- Ashleigh Brilliant
>