[pianotech] Expanding Brackets time?

[Susan Kline]

Not sure just how long it will take, Joe. Of course the first time takes
longer. SOMEWHERE around here I have the data sheet sent out the first time
I did one -- the other two times I didn't receive it. It had the spread 
figure,
and an order of operations.

You may have to set up two different times for this job -- the first two 
times,
the new brackets fit perfectly. The third time, the holes for the two 
middle
brackets (in front) were the wrong places, so I had to plug and redrill --
also, the original screws were not quite long enough, so I had to get 
longer
ones. You might just have your Associate take along a few extra longer 
screws,
just in case.

Once they are in, one of course has to undo the desperate letoff-widening
and drop-increasing which was probably done as they began to grow.

Hope none of these are so expanded that it affects getting the action out.

And I just this week found an old Kohler with the yellow plastic elbows,
and the plastic was still pretty tough! Not many of those left. This piano
had one replaced elbow and one broken elbow. I'm waiting for them to get
more fragile. Trying to chew them off when they are still tough is a pain
in the neck. Had to drive out the center pins on a number the last time
that happened.

Oh, and I have one Baldwin product with the rock-hard corfam, which is
waiting.

Best,
Susan

Joseph Garrett wrote:
> All,
> I must lead a charmed life...or something like it...I've never had to
> replace those pesky, expanding, grand action brackets.<G> However, I now
> have an Associate that has two of them! She needs to know, approximately,
> how much time it take to do that job?? I guess I need to know, as well,
> so's I can insert it into the RLG, for it's next "reprint".
> Thanks to any/all who respond.
> Best,
> Joe
>
>
> Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
> Captain of the Tool Police
> Squares R I
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