traveling/traveling/ traveling?

[jolly roger]

Hi Lance,
                Joe Goss, sells a nice traveling bar with some modified
close clips that does a great job.
The bar is marked on two sides making it very good for travelling damper
underlevers.
I also use the bar as an in case key level stick. it's about 12" long.
The modified clothes clips will slip between back checks so full travel is
easy.
Roger

At 08:19 AM 2/23/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I travel the end shanks of each section carefully with a square.  Then I
>clip a strip of wood (those slats that come in boxes of Renner parts) to the
>end hammers with clothes pins.  On the strip is glued a strip of paper with
>vertical lines printed on it (covers the whole piece of wood) from Microsoft
>Word.  I just print out vertical lines on a page, cut it out squarely, and
>glue it to the strip of wood.
>Like>  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! except just vertical
>lines, not !!!!.  As you pull the whole section up to strike level you can
>easily see travel problems.  I use strips of packing tape that you must wet
>to stick, and hang it from my mouth as I work.  Pretty fast.
>Lance Lafargue, RPT
>Mandeville, LA
>New Orleans Chapter, PTG
>lancelafargue@bellsouth.net
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
>Of Kevin E. Ramsey
>Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 7:17 AM
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: traveling/traveling/ traveling?
>
>
>    I agree, traveling shanks before hanging hammers just makes too much
>sense not to do it. I generally use a straightedge with many perpendicular
>lines marked on it. As you lift the shanks from their resting position, you
>can easily see the ones that move from side to side. I like the idea of the
>square though.
>    It just makes more sense to try to travel the shanks before hanging
>hammers, if you can eliminate as much burning in of the shanks later.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Erwinpiano" <Erwinpiano@email.msn.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:54 PM
>Subject: Re: traveling/traveling/ traveling?
>
>
>>   Hi Guys
>>    I Firmly like the idea ,to each there own ,BUT in our shop we travel
>all
>> our shanks prior to hammer hanging.  I think I got this technique from the
>> Snyder boys and its simple quick,& accurate.  Screw the action frame to a
>> very level benchtop and put a square up to the side of each shank  Move
>each
>> shank up and down indivdually.,and travel accordingly.  This makes it
>> possible to be sure that the shanks are truly traveling straight and
>> eliminates 95% of shank burning after the hmmrs are hung except of course
>if
>> you did not hang em straight and sometimes we don't but if you do theres
>not
>> much burning required.  I still find that minor amounts of travel tweaking
>> is needed ,as Dave Love sai, it is quite easy to see traveling shanks with
>> hmmrs on.
>>
>>    Dale Erwin
>>
>>   Will be at calif. convention manana.  Stop by our exhibit booth and play
>> our 1929 Remanufactured BB Mason&Hamlin.  It turned out well and would
>value
>> your opinions and preludes!
>>
>>
>