This problem is usually traceable to the technique used by Baldwin to install their actions. The actions are installed using the top bolts and/or brackets first. At this point the bottom bolts are not touching the brackets. The bottom bolts are then driven up using a power driver (an impact wrench, as I recall) until they are "tight" against the bracket. You'd have to be legally blind not to notice the brackets bending while this is going on. At the factory the actions are never removed again. When they are removed in the field for service the action will pop up. Throwing off the hammer line, of course. The best way to replace the action is to lower the bottom bolts and set the action in place. Crank the bottom bolts up until the top holes line up with either the holes in the plate or the bracket bolts. Check the hammer line and adjust as needed. This is a one-time event -- once you have the bottom bolts adjusted correctly the action will go in and out easily. This is a procedure I worked hard -- and unsuccessfully -- to get changed during the nearly five years I was with the company. It was a procedure that had worked well at one time but that was when the bottom bolts were actually adjusted by hand to fit the brackets correctly. The impact wrenches were faster but fairly brutal. And wildly inaccurate. I don't know if the procedure has been changed since then. Regards, Del Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Manufacturing Consultant 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA Phone 360.736.7563 Cell 360.388.6525 Fax 360.736.5239 <mailto:del at fandrichpiano.com> _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of richard.ucci at att.net Sent: November 02, 2008 7:00 AM To: pianotech Subject: upright actio height List, Another Baldwin console with action brackets that do not line up with bolts . Middle brackets are too high, action is seated properly. Action was difficult to remove , had to tap off with a hammer . I lowered the rest bolts, but whippens are now too low, jacks too high. The rest bolts can be raised from under the keybed, which I assume would bring things back to the way they were before. Would it make more sense just to bend the bracket bolts upward? Thanks, Rick Ucci/Ucci Piano -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081103/0789cf47/attachment.html
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