>I'm in the process of rebuilding a grand action that has a hammer rail lift, >rather than shifting. The wips have lost motion compensators like the old >Packard uprights, and all that support hardware makes the stack weigh an >extra ten pounds. I'm replacing everything with more standard stuff, and >doing the necessary modifications to add the shift. It's going to need glide >bolts, shift lever, trapwork re-engineering, springs, keyframe pins and >guides, etc, etc. I'm doing key work at the moment, and haven't gotten into >the neat stuff yet, but it doesn't look like it will be too bad a job. >Hopefully, my hardware will get here by the time I need it. Now if this is >not just a case of ignorance=bliss... > > Ron > ---------------------------------------------------------- Been there, done that. Just make sure that you have clearance for the action to shift between the two cheek blocks. And that the damper levers align properly with the key ends. Del
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