[pianotech] Damper Pedal

[Ron Nossaman]

> The broken rod hanger that others have mentioned is the likely cause.  

Yes it is. Now, in all the years, with all of these I've 
replaced, I've seen very few that couldn't be replaced by 
knocking the old one out, driving in a new one (Schaff #545, 
$4.18 per 100), and bending it to fit. It's a field repair. No 
brazing, no welding, no soldering, no JB Weld, and the fix 
takes considerably less time than getting to the silly thing. 
I've also found them handy for pivot pins and tooling locators 
for sundry jigs and contraptions of various ilk through the 
years. Maybe I just haven't run into all those weird sized 
ones that these pins won't work on. If so, I'm glad.

Oh yes, the few I found that these didn't work on (they could 
be a tad longer in some cases), I fluted (swaged) the end of 
an appropriate sized rod with a cold chisel and drove it in 
just like the commercially available pins.
Ron N