---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Howz the center pin plating? At 06:47 PM 6/14/2002, you wrote: >OK all you engineer types. I was repining some hammer flanges today on a >Steinway that has been in a practice room. Action parts are Renner. It >gets hard play 14+ hours a day. The action was rebuilt 4 years >ago. Nearly all of the bushings were quite tight -- most 1 or 2 >swings. A few had 3 swings and I was pinning for 4 so since the action >had been in the shop (idle) for a couple of weeks, I thought maybe I could >just vigorously work the shank a few seconds and it would swing 4. I'd >hold the flange and make the hammer swing back and forth fairly forcefully >for 5 or 6 seconds and then test it again. In each case the ones that >previously would give 3 good swings, now only gave 1. The hammer dropped >from horizontal to vertical and stopped dead. > >What made the bushings get tighter by simply working the flange? I'm stumped! > >dave > > >_____________________________ >David M. Porritt >dporritt@mail.smu.edu >Meadows School of the Arts >Southern Methodist University >Dallas, TX 75275 >_____________________________ Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3b/3b/5b/a5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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