>Shelly writes: >>When I worked for Baldwin in the factory at Conway >>for >12 years, the acceptable torque on a pin was between 180 and 230 lbs. >> otherwise it was replaced with a bigger pin !!!!!! > >Greetings, > Amazing, but I remember those. This is also one reason that I and >several other techs that I knew stopped recommending Baldwin pianos. That >amount of torque does nothing but exhaust the tuner. >REgards, >Ed Foote Back when Alan Vincent worked for Baldwin, he told me that they were very conscientious about fixing anything over 300 inch pounds! I wonder if that means driving the broken one on through. In any case, tight pins is not the reason I stopped recommending them. Ron N
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