[CAUT] vertical hammers

[Leslie Bartlett]

Well, I am stuck. I won't be replacing everything, so will have to hope that
I get good results with what I have. The wood is unusually solid and the
parts amazingly tight. Some serious work has been done on it before, of that
I'm sure.   I'm not going to make any money to speak of on this job.  But I
will have learned a lot, the most important lesson perhaps being to never do
it again........   Thanks
les

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
Chris Solliday
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 4:22 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] vertical hammers


I do concur. Unless of course you lower your standards or perhaps better
said, shoot for a limited improvement. Otherwise working on uprights in
general is rarely cost effective. Chris Solliday
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan McCoy" <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] vertical hammers


> Leslie,
>
> This is probably a bit late (only working 2 - 10s this summer) but for
what
> it's worth: I think it is an exceedingly bad idea (a false economy) to put
> new hammers on 100 year old shanks. The butt buckskin and underfelt will
> need replacing, all springs will need replacing. It goes on and on. One
> hundred year old action parts all need to be replaced. Period. Sounds a
bit
> dogmatic, I admit, but I would not do that job unless the client agreed to
> complete part replacement. It's actually cheaper to replace a set of wips
> (or butts or dampers) than recondition a set, unless of course you work
for
> minimum wage.
>
> Just MHO.
>
> Alan
>
>
> -- Alan McCoy, RPT
> Eastern Washington University
> amccoy@mail.ewu.edu
> 509-359-4627
>
>
> > From: Leslie Bartlett <l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net>
> > Reply-To: <l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net>, "College and University
Technicians
> > <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:55:11 -0500
> > To: <CAUT@ptg.org>
> > Subject: [CAUT] vertical hammers
> >
> > I think that it probably is going to be in the piano unless the guy who
will
> > be stringing takes months. I'm doing the work in the lady's house. Not
my
> > first choice, but she's not far from here, is very inquisitive, so best
to
> > be able to show her why she is spending a bundle of money. Of course I'm
not
> > replacing EVERYTHING, so the job will never be "all done".  But I think
I
> > can bring it back to where it is a pleasure to play. Thanks for
feedback.
> > les bartlett
> >
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