curiously repinning

[Cy Shuster]

I've seen 'em in jacks, to center in the windows, but not in wippen 
flanges...

--Cy--

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Beck" <mrchuckbeck at mail.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 9:25 AM
Subject: curiously repinning


>I recently began extensive action work on an 1894 WW Kimball grand for 
>myself.   I found all of the wippens sluggish so I began repinning the 
>flanges.  I found that almost all of the pins, while also corroded, were 
>all bent on one or both sides of the birdseye.  Some of these bends were up 
>to 30 degrees.  Repinning went fine, but I was just curious if anyone else 
>has often encountered bent center pins this extensively in their keyboards. 
>Cheers!
>
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