Lou, I start with the back checks facing you on the bench. Lift the key end with your finger to see the line up with the hammer. Do your first bend at the bottom near the key, then a second bend near the top of the wire to make it perpendicular. Once you're close, turn the action around and view from the front and stretch over the action and bend them to make them line up perfectly with the hammer tail. Al From: Lou Novak Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 7:21 PM To: pianotech Subject: [pianotech] Bending new back check wires Hello List- What is with the best procedure for bending the wires on a new set of back checks? (The piano is a Mason & Hamlin BB). Naturally I have adjusted sets during a normal regulation, but never a new set with the wires straight up and the back checks standing tall! I normally figure a my own method by the time I'm on the last octave, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. :-) Thanking you in advance. -Lou -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091115/4993259f/attachment.htm>
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