[CAUT] Renner back action

[Jim Busby]

Aaron,

Ditto what Alan said. My first one took me about 8 hours. Now (after about 12 units or so) I can usually do the job in 1/2 day including dampers. But like Alan said, it depends on what remedial stuff needs to be done, and, of course, on your own skills and confidence. (About 2 hours of the first job was me looking at the instructions and going "huummmmm.....", and I was very slow and careful)

Good luck.

Jim Busby BYU

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Alan McCoy
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:34 AM
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Renner back action

Aaron,

You better allow a full day for the first one. You may or may not run up
against difficulties. I did an A last spring though and it was a pretty
straight forward job. On the other hand I was going to do a 70's vintage M&H
BB last fall and I would have had to re-engineer the thing - it didn't have
pivot blocks, each underlever had a jack spring, it was not your typical
backaction.

Alan


> From: Aaron Bousel <abousel at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:16:14 -0400
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: [CAUT] Renner back action
>
> Can any of you who have used the Renner replacement back action give
> me an idea of how many hours one should allow for that job. Just the
> back action replacement, not including removal and reinstallation of
> the dampers.
>
> Any pianos this WON'T work on? The piano in question is a Steinway A
> (small one)
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Aaron Bousel
> Registered Piano Technician, Piano Technicians Guild
> abousel at comcast.net
> (413) 253-3846 (voice & fax)