Murderous Fallboard

[Isaac Sadigursky]

Hi,Alan! If this is older,preFreefall type Fallboard:chances are that the
Leather in the spring slot is completely worn-out. Solution:Take the remains
of the leather out and use appropriate lengh  Backcheck leather of good
quality,it is much thicker then original.#2:polish the tip of the
spring.steelwool or 3M Light deburring wheel will do it.If this Fallboard
has slots and springs on both sides-do both of them.Let us know how it will
work. To clamp the newly glued leather-I use 3m spray glue and cut ½ piece
of 2” PVC pipe to use as a clamping-leather stretching device.. Good luck..
Isaac Sadigursky,L.A..Chapter

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Alan R. Barnard
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:53 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Murderous Fallboard

 

I have a music teacher customer with a Yamaha grand that has a poorly
counter-balanced (or some problem) fallboard. It has made several credible
attempts to chop hands off young students.

 

It appears to have never had any sort of close-retarding mechanism, let
alone a Soft-Close device.

 

Tried Googling up a solution, 'cause I know it's been on the list, but I got
endless chains of stuff and no answers (and no hits when I added
"site:www.ptg.org" for some reason.)

 

Someone help me out here, please. What's a good fix?


Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

Good Advice "Don't Believe Everything You Think"

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