[pianotech] Riding the rails

Dale Erwin erwinspiano at aol.com
Sat Mar 26 12:50:24 MDT 2011


Kent
  Nice set up

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Sat, Mar 26, 2011 10:27 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails


Custom jigs can set the heights as well as the spread. See attached.









On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Dale Erwin wrote:


 Hi Dan
 Thanks for sharing the nifty set up. I was trying to think thru your procedure. Would it be something like?
1.  Check & record the action spread spread,elevation, lateral location and tilt of each rail?
2. Set up the turnbuckles on the old rails before removal?
3. remove one rail and set up the turn buckles , check tilt elevation, lateral alignment and solder?
4. Next rail, same procedure?

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: bergpiano <dan at bergpiano.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Sat, Mar 26, 2011 5:36 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails


Hey guys check it out. http://www.ejbuckpiano.com/Charlie/KeyBoard/Action.html 
 
Dan Berg 
 
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> 
To: <pianotech at ptg.org> 
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:31 AM 
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails 
 
>I didn't realize that the brass was toast.  You're sort of stuck then.  For 
> $600 you can learn a lot about soldering. 
> 
> David Love 
> www.davidlovepianos.com 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On > Behalf 
> Of Ron Nossaman 
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 9:24 PM 
> To: pianotech at ptg.org 
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails 
> 
> On 3/25/2011 10:51 PM, Ed Foote wrote: 
>> David asks: 
>>> >BTW are you sure you can't salvage them with some wood rot doctor type 
>> stuff. 
>> 
>> The brass is split all to hell. I have had John Dewey do some before, as 
>> well as Chris Robinson. However, at over $600 for installing two rails 
>> that cost about $70 each, plus the delay in shipping and waiting, I 
>> gotta find a better way. I can handle most of the foreseeable problems, 
>> but have never soldered anything that heavy. 
> 
> Considering the profit potential, I can't imagine why not. 
> Ron N 
>  

 



 
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