Dang these puzzlers

[Richard Brekne]

Nice nut. Lots of things it could be actually, but I will look away from the new
stuff, as I must assume you ordered correctly weighted hammers, checked the
whippens on installing, and etc. You rule out action centers, key bushings, jack
centering, and problems with the keypins (I suppose this includes overtight
balance rail keypin holes). Knuckle problems dont really require much action
"dissasembly"

Half rounds reversed sounds like a good place to look. I suppose keys could be
rubbing somewhere, perhaps the damper lift felt was worn or a bit damaged and
hanging up just a tad ?, but then you should have perhaps noticed these when
checking the newly bushed keys.

How about friction from the capstans to underside felt of the whippen ?

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway

A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

> Greetings all,
>      I LOVE puzzles........no,  actually I hate them.  No,  I luv'em, but
> then, I hate'em too, when they suddenly hatch in front of me on my own
> workbench.  I mean,  I like to hear of other's puzzles, but I'm trying to
> make a living here, and time i$.  If this will save some others time, good.
>     OK,
> Steinway M # 295777
> New whippens, shanks, hammers, keybushing .  Kept the original action rails
> and their cloth, keypins  and accelerating half rounds.
>    As I finished the first key-level and rough regulation.(2  hours, I was
> not being real precise here),  I noticed that on soft release in the bass,  a
> couple of hammers were dropping slowly when they approached rest position.
> These notes felt ok, at this pre-B/W,S/W,Dn/U, stage of the game, and they
> regulated and repeated well.
>     It LOOKED like knuckles rubbing, or hammer felt touching neighbors, maybe
> even tight key bushings or a problem with the pins, but it wasn't.  It wasn't
> even a pinning problem .    I thought it must be a geometry problem,  maybe
> the knuckle was bigger, and pressed on the jack in a weird way as it fell
> back, etc......  no,  it was not that either.
>    The puzz-notes were in the bass, and they were A 13 and B 21.  The fix
> required some disassembly first.
> ?Ed
> (gee, now that I look at it,  this seems a lot easier than it did when I
> started taking the action apart.