Marshall, Don't try to get your finger in the action to loosen a hammer screw. You can hear the screw if you probe with your tool. As far as the whipen, get the whipen in one hand and put your thumb on the heal of the jack. With your other hand, lift the end of the action enough to get the whipen in close and you can screw it in place from there. William ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Gisondi To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:32 PM Subject: [pianotech] other action fixes Hi Everyone who responded, I'll contact Pianotech and look into repinning. I need to get CA glue as well. I saw a tech use CA glue on a cracked birds eye and then put that strong mailing U-Haul tape on the birds eye to reinforce it. This was a couple of years ago. I was in a jam didn't have repinning tools on hand and he came out on a Saturday to a nursing home to help me, a great guy. I wish we'd see more of each other. He's helped me several times. I did take him to lunch that day and offered on the other occasion too but he had another appointment going on. it's always great to have help when you're in a jam or need other options even if you have an idea as to what to do , but are curious if there's just another way to do things. Another thing I was curious about is this. Have you ever come across a hammer that rubs its neighbor in a spinet or console, but found loosening and retightening the flange screw to prove futile? I've tried loosening the hammer butt flange screw and holding the flange in a different position only to have it tighten up in the wrong position again on past occasions. So today, I didn't have my hammer shank bender to heat the shank with so I tried sanding the sides of the hammer namely the shulder that was rubbing the other hammer. It seemed to help. It worked in the past, but how do you guys feel about using the shank heating method or sanding hammers? Also how on earth does one get in between the stickers on the spinet actions to access the hammer but flange screws without hurting the stickers. My fingers cannot fit between them either. It's quite a narrow space between two stickers. I assume when you guys take out wippens and such in a customers home, you have an action cradel handy? I guess I need to figure out a way to carry more tools like this even if I'm taking public transit. So if you can recommend a tool box that's larger than this Stanley one the school gave us, but not so huge it won't fit on a bus or train, I'm all ears. Wheels would be great too as my back is aging faster than the rest of me lol Well thanks again. Marshall Marshall Gisondi MARSHALL'S PIANO SERVICE 215-510-9400 http://www.phillytuner.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130215/dbbd3ad1/attachment.htm>
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