If the middle was bowed in you would trim the middle dowels only? I'm thinking usually 3 dowels, so middle dowel trimmed... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: tom <tomtuner at verizon.net> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Received: 6/23/2008 8:38:20 AM Subject: RE: Keyslips making keys stick >List, > My 10 minute solution is to trim the dowels protruding from the >bottom of the slip on the side facing the player, essentially making the >dowels smaller in diameter than the corresponding hole in the keybed. Then >glue a piece of leather in the holes one quarter the circumference of the >hole on the side closest to the keyframe. > Hard to describe, but think of it as making a smaller hole and >"moving" it away from the keyframe . Then when inserting the slip (with the >smaller dowels) a new space is created without adding any extra friction. >I'm all for doing what needs to be done in whatever time and resources may >be available, and this technique qualifies on both counts. > Tom Driscoll RPT >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG. >Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1514 - Release Date: 6/23/2008 >7:17 AM >
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