SEE COMMENTS BELOW: > Thanks one and all for the suggestions. > > As it turned out, I got to thinking and looking and pondering and ended > up just filing the front (hammer end) of flange profile back enough so > that I could get the centerpins lined up with the old center pin line. > This was a bit time consuming, but it got done in about 3 hours. It > required a bit extra in terms of shank traveling and making sure the > centerpin heights were even... but not so much extra in the end. > > This brought back the knuckles so that they were just 1.5 behind the old > ones, and that turned out to work really well with the jacks. The jacks > were too far back relative to the knuckles to begin with, as I said in > my first post. I wont know until I start regulating just how off 90 > degrees the jack will be from the knuckle... but it looked pretty good > on the bench. > > I wanted to go with a 17mm knuckles to center to accommodate a number > 6 SW curve... just under mid medium. Thats about as light a hammer as I > could ask for these days. The old set weighed in at 3/4 lows.... really > light. Samples were amazingly enough dead on the Stanwood curve. I > will be maintaining the same BW, and keep the existing whippen assist > springs at their same basic tensions. > > Customer just doesnt have enough money for new whippens. > > I'll take some pics as I get further along. The keys and whippens are > dated 1879. The instrument is in really quite good condition for being > so old. ' > > Thanks again one an all for the many good points and thoughts. > > > RicB THANKS, RicB. Thanks, D. Stanwood. Thanks, list, for doing what you do best. Your knowledge is beautiful and inspiring. Good list. Very good. Stay. Stay, boy/girl. Good list. <g>
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