On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM, John Dorr <a440 at bresnan.net> wrote: > John Formsma wrote: > Did you first try strengthening the springs? Sometimes I have some luck > with that, but mostly where the original springs were of better quality. I > would also replace these YC springs after 20 years. It's time. > -- > JF > > Yes, John it's time. No, I didn't try strengthening the OEM springs > because the problem that I'm trying to fix is that they're breaking. Two of > them broke - the purpose of the original service call - and several others > look bent. > > John, you didn't mean to strengthen the new ones, did you? I took it to > mean that you were talking about the old ones. No, just strengthening the old ones. I've also found that some of the Korean springs break sooner than say, Baldwin springs. Kimball springs don't last as long either. 'Course like you said, they all should be replaced in 15 years, and perhaps sooner than that. -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090119/837bc414/attachment.html>
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