>Hi Terry > >Boy are we on the same rollercoaster. I just got done doing a hammer >replacement on a Bluthner here at school. Someone had replaced these >hammers a few years back and had really managed to muck up the bore >length. A couple <<clues>> were drop screws turned up as high as possible >and still too much drop, hammer rest rail at 48 mm from strings !!... Wouldn't you expect to see both of these things with severely worn hammers? Phil F >ie a reallllly short stroke. These hammers were so worn down it was >impossible to be sure of the origional bore length, but after boring to 53 >mm for the new hammers I had to lower everything like drastically. Seems >like many techs doing this kind of work still dont know how do deal with >finding the proper bore length. My best guess on this one was that >whomever just guessed at the bore length based on a worn down set of hammers. > >Cheers >RicB > > >------------------------------- > >I experienced a new low today.... The >hammers on this thing were bored to produce a full quarter-inch >overstrike. > >Terry Farrell >
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