quick advice on damperlever replacement

[Greg Newell]

Ooops! Is my face red!! Sorry Tom, I obviously misread. You got enough good 
advice by now so all that's left is ... good Luck!

Greg Newell


At 06:15 PM 6/13/2002, you wrote:

>In a message dated 6/13/02 4:06:03 PM, Wimblees@AOL.COM writes:
>
><< The damper levers come with wires. So you have to not only take the wires
>out
>of the plastic ones from the I&P, but also out of the new ones. >>
>
>Nope.  They come from Schaff with or without wires, which is what got me
>thinking about this in the first place.
>
>And Greg, the damper levers themselves are plastic, not just the flanges.  So
>the whole lever and flange needs replacing.  On the postive side, it would be
>easy to take the wires out of the old ones.  I'd just crumble 'em like a
>plastic elbow.
>
>What I don't know is:  would putting the old wires/heads on the new levers be
>easy?  Would the damper wire slip into the lever like a hammer shank into a
>butt?  Add a little glue, and you're all done?  Or would they have to be
>forced in?
>
>I guess I'm gun shy on the wire bending because I just got through replacing
>damper levers/heads/felts on a Mason&Hamlin console.  The previous technician
>had thrown out the old damper levers, so I had to start from scratch.  It was
>quite time consuming, because I had never had to do this before.  I know it
>would be much easier to simply match the bends in the old damper wires.
>Still, easiest of all seems to be putting that old wire in the new lever...
>
>Tom Sivak

Greg Newell
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