Jim, Definitely buy a blank rail and custom bore. Jude Reveley, RPT Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC Lowell, Massachusetts (978) 323-4545 ----- Original Message ----- From: jim ialeggio To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:34 AM Subject: [pianotech] S&S action rail replacements? I have an S&S "A" action key and action reprortion project (aka Bruce Clark's protocol) for which I'm replacing beat whippen and hammer rails. It would certainly save time and $ to order pre-bored rails from Steinway. My sense though is that I will be sorry for that, as the bore locations of contemporary manufacture will most likely not match 1890 locations. Any experience on this? Is is possible the bore locations would be remotely acceptable? Jim -- grandpianosolutions.com Shirley, MA (978) 425-9026 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090312/e8fc5cad/attachment.html>
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