Clicker Action

[jolly roger]

Hi Avery,
               Last year I had my back against the wall with a Steinway D
with this problem. Repinned a whole section as follows:

1. De pin all flanges.
2. One drop of Red Hot Stuff ( thin CA glue) on the inside of the collar of
the teflon bushings.
3. Reamed bushing with a parallel reamer.
4. Re pinned.

The job is holding up too well, the client is delaying haveing the piano
rebuilt.  <Darn>
Most of the noise seems to come from the out side of the bushing, rattling
against the flange, and not from the pin.
In fact some of the bushings on this one just fell out.
Using the CA around the collar prevents any CA glue getting to the pin
contact area.
May help, it seems to stand up, since the humidity has dropped dramatically
since the repair was made. I need to keep my eye on it through a two year
period before being able to say it's an OK fix.  
Regards roger


At 10:30 PM 1/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Terry,
>
>Congratulations. I have about 20 of that era L's around the music dept.
>The click could be either one. They sound very similar most of the time.
>
>And I _think_ there are 32 bass strings: singles A0 - E1 and doubles F1 - E2.
>F2 is the first note above the bass break. I just tuned an older 'B' this
>morning, so I hope I'm remembering correctly. As often as I have to tune
>our 'B's, I _ought_ to know for SURE.  :-)
>
>Avery
>
>At 09:31 PM 01/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>Tuned my first piano equipped with a clicker action today. S&S B. 1971. I
>>had never heard the infamous teflon clicking action before. Is it common for
>>it to give a nice loud click when the hammer hits the string? That's what
>>this one was doing. Real bad on one note, and noticeable on several others.
>>Now that I am writing this I wonder if it could have been a loose hammer.
>>Hmmmm. At what point do those actions typically click, or do they just do it
>>at every movement?
>>
>>And, how many bass strings on a S&S B?
>>
>>Terry Farrell
>>Piano Tuning & Service
>>Tampa, Florida
>>mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>