Good call, Jon If one is to perform a full action retrofit, why stop at wips and hammers/shanks/flanges....especially if the customer can afford it! I have gone to the wurzen conical front rail punchings as well with nothing but huge success and raves from the customers. Like them a lot! Like when I re-string...new bridge pins and agraffes.... It only makes sense. OK, I admit, a few practice room grands didn't get everything...sometimes, just new hammers, or new bass strings, but that's my budget restraints!.....if only in a perfect world.... Paul From: Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: 11/12/2009 01:07 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Action Reconditioning/Rebuilding: When is it best to replace felts? Replace all the key frame felts, including cardboard punchings. I don't like to deal with dry-rotted punchings down the line. Might as well replace the letoff buttons as well. For the hammer rail, get a roll of fine emery cloth from Klingspor and adhere a strip onto the rail with double-sided tape (a hardware store will have 1/2" tape for plastic window sheets by 3M). -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091112/48bdb296/attachment.htm>
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