Dear persons, I found this an interesting question as well as a response. My understanding and practice to date dictates that when the center pin is pinned properly, the center pin does not move or rotate at all. I am fairly certain that is what Al meant to say, but semantics may have got in the way. Keith On Dec 24, 2008, at 6:56 AM, Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft wrote: > When pinned properly, the pin moves/rotates in the bushing not the > butt. Lubricate the bushing. > > Al G > > From: 88man at netscape.com > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:24 AM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: [pianotech] center pin function > > Trying to fully understand how the center pin functions. For > Example: The Hammer butt pin....Am I correct in assuming that the > properly functioning pin will rotate within the butt flange bushings > and that the hammer will not rotate ON this pin...but with it? Hope > I said that right...trying to determine where critical places would > be in applying protek to sluggish hammers. > > Will appreciate any help or criticisms. > > Thanks, Lance > > > Netscape. Just the Net You Need. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081224/1404e78a/attachment-0001.html>
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