This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment The jack tender is in two pieces so the grain orientation is correct for = strength. Imagine if key sticks were cut out across the grain; they = would soon snap in two or even three pieces. AF ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Cy Shuster=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:12 PM Subject: Unglued grand jack tender Ran into my first loose jack tender today, on a 1969 S&S M. The note = blocked on my first run-through, and adjusting letoff didn't help. Sure = enough, the tender pulled right out of its little mortise and tenon = joint (along with two others in the high treble that weren't blocking = yet). =20 I CA'd them (protecting the action center with pieces of business = cards, as per the PTG's Field Guide), but it made me wonder: why are = those jacks made in two pieces to begin with? Is it just so they can = fail in a repairable way if regulation is off (too much aftertouch)? --Cy Shuster-- Bluefield, WV ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7e/d9/8f/3e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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