Brian The best way to repair this is to remove the entire damper tray assembly, and remanufacture all the broken parts. Give the customer the option of paying for it, or maybe he can get the movers to pay for it. In any case, do what is necessary to make the proper repair. If no one wants to take pay for it, then so be it. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Brian Doepke <bdoepke at verizon.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sat, 31 May 2008 8:36 am Subject: 1929 Lansing B.Grand Hello List, I have a client, in another town, who has a 1929 Lansing B. Grand that when the mover’s put it in his house, they bent the lyre case backwards…shoving the damper lift rod upwards and snapping the rod where it was attached to the damper tray. It broke away from the wooden “grommet” attached to the lifter tray. The tip of the rod is an inverted “L” shape. For a field repair, I c.a. glued the tip of the rod into the hole left by the screw that held the grommet that was attached to the lift tray. ( I hope that I am ‘splaining this ok”) Now, 3 months later, the client calls and asks for another type of repair because he only got “about 2 hours” of playing before the sustain began to malfunction. Does anyone have any ideas for a more permanent repair? Or how about a clever statement about how his piano is a PSO. Thank you, Brian P. Doepke, RPT A.A.A. Piano Works, LLC Piano Tuning + Service -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080531/341ca770/attachment.html
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