No Power Yamaha revisited

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Thu, 22 May 2003 18:12:23 +0200


Ok guys and gals...

I gots to eat crow here...  I think anyways. As it turns out I managed
to finnally solve the hammers bouncing all over the place thing by
turning up all the bed screws so that the key frame was solidly bedded
with the actuall wood of the balance rail a full 2 mm elevated over the
key bed. Huge increase in power, but this also caused an increase in
keydip to 10.5 mm (!) and forced a drop in blow to just above the
cushions... perhaps the shanks are about 2-3 mm off. However....
absolutly no bouncing of neighboring hammers any more, and that feeling
of loosing power is gone.

What I dont get is why the Balance Rail needs to be elevated so much.
And how are we supposed to determine the proper balance rail height to
begin with ? I was always told that glide bolts need to just make
contact with the key bed... not to lift the whole darn middle of the key
frame up.

Explainations please ?

RicB

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