Short Capstan

[Erwinspiano at aol.com]

On the last couple damper tray retrofits I  did, I recessed the damper tray 
so that the heads could be turned in almost  flush & below the level of the 
underlever/tray platform.   It  takes two minutes on the table saw to do that.  I 
also added a thin strip-  0 -wood on the bottom of the tray for a bit more 
thread area to bite in  to.  In the end I had about 2.5 mm of the pointed end of 
the thread column  sticking thru the bottom of the wood & I just ground it 
off with a belt  sander......zip  No problem.  
    The smaller version from Schaff  are fine but they are far more time 
consuming  but workable.  I have a  set. $11 dollars list. I preferred the beauty 
of simply turning the longer  ones into wood than I did pressing the short 
ones in while trying to keep them  straight & all. It's such a cinch to turn in 
the whole set with power  tools in about 10 minutes max.
   The shorter had the square  wrench head which wasn't as convenient as a 
standard hex head Pianoforte  supplied capstan head.  
  If you'd like to try the short ones they're  yours.
  Just my 2 cents  worth.
  Dale
 
 
 
 
Waste of good labor, mine.

David  Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 

-----Original  Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org  [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Jon Page
Sent: Friday, May  05, 2006 9:53 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Short Capstan

I  hate to state the obvious...cut the longer ones shorter.
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Regards,

Jon Page





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