Good thought. That would have been worse. At 06:48 AM 1/20/98 -0600, you wrote: >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. > >---------- >> 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 >> > >> ----------------------------------------------- >> >> 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 >> > > Ed Carwithen Oregon
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