Pelican spring makes a fair spring but a poor pivot and can't cope with the stresses of that particular system, being welded to the lever and not easily substituted, make a solid pivot of wood or 1/8" x 1" strap iron to anchor to the bottom board and lift lightly at the lever as close to the spring curve as possible. On Wednesday, April 18, 2007, at 11:18 PM, David Ilvedson wrote: > I have a customer with a Seiler Studio, about 3 years old. The > sustain pedal adjustment nut has to be turned up to the point the > dampers barely raise or the dampers are held off the strings. The > problem comes from pedal lever is flexing or (probably) the pelican > spring is pushing down or giving too much. Movement at the pedal > side of the lever hardly moves the other end of the lever with the > dowel. Lever is square metal stock [] except on its side instead of > an i-beam configuration. The spring is welded to the lever. The > owner is going to email Seiler. The nearly exact configuration works > perfectly with the soft pedal and the mute pedal. Those levers are > shorter though. The sustain lever also doesn't seem to be in as > perfect alignment with the dowel as it could be. I think it is > slightly tipped also... > > As I think through it, I'm wondering if the pelican spring is in the > spot on the lever. Where that should be I don't know...Maybe the > pelican spring is not strong enough to resist the pedal movement? > > > > David Ilvedson, RPT > Pacifica, CA 94044 > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1493 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070419/1ae0e4cb/attachment.bin
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