[pianotech] rusted underlever screw

[Ron Nossaman]

On 12/17/2011 9:28 AM, David Weiss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A thin stream of water dripped onto a 1930's Baldwin small grand. The
> water hit two bass dampers, dripped onto their strings, sostenuto rod,
> and down onto the damper underlevers. Now the underlever screws are
> rusted and impossible to remove.

Watered the plant, did they?

If you can't get any joy from heating the screw with a soldering iron, 
you're probably down to - twist it off, drill it out, pull the two 
underlevers and replace barrel, screw, and damper wire. Or clip the wire 
and replace the underlevers and clipped wire.

Ron N