shanks and butts....

[ed440 at mindspring.com]

How much wiggle room?
Some wiggle room is normal to allow you to align the hammers to the strings when you glue them in.
Ed Sutton
-----Original Message-----
>From: ed miller <edmiller3 at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 9, 2006 4:48 PM
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: shanks and butts....
>
>I am about to do my first -all new- butt, shank and hammer job
>
>The shanks I bought are 7/32" and the hammers were bored for that size. I 
>just received the new butts and to my suprise the bored hole in the butts 
>are bigger than my 7/32" shanks. When I put the shanks in the butts there is 
>wiggle room. This doesn't seem right!
>
>The butts are made by Tokiwa and they are for a brass rail.
>
>Is this normal? Or should I return them and ask for butts bored for 7/32" 
>shanks?
>
>When I looked in the Schaff catalog to see if shanks are made bigger than 
>7/32" I could not find anything butt shanks drills that were for sizes 
>smaller than 7/32".
>
>I'm confused...please help.
>
>Thanks, Ed
>
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