Paul: You said "The shape of the flange holds the flange in position." The shape of the flange sometimes holds the flange out of position which makes us do strange things to align the hammers in a given piano (gentle forcing the flange where it doesn't want to go, cross papering, etc.) When I have used sandpaper or emery cloth, I've found that it helps this alignment (however you force it) to stay put better. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 1:10 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Action Rail Flange Cloth The purpose of the felt is to reduce impact noise in the rail. The shape of the flange holds the flange in position. Sandpaper would be, probably, inappropriate? P In a message dated 9/25/2009 1:06:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, reggaepass at aol.com writes: Anybody use sandpaper for this application? Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Fri, Sep 25, 2009 10:51 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] Action Rail Flange Cloth Paul: We used to use the Steinway provided black adhesive backed tape. Why pay the price. The adhesive-backed brown nameboard felt available from any of the other major vendors is quite inexpensive and does the same thing. P In a message dated 9/25/2009 12:34:13 P.M. Central Daylight Time, pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu<mailto:pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> writes: Hi All, What do you all use for action rail flange cloth, or do you just get some from Steinway or wherever...? This L I'm working on is in bad shape. I took the old hammer flanges off today and the cloth underneath literally disolved in my hands into dust. Has anyone used stringing braid cloth? Thanks Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090925/a5e805d2/attachment.htm>
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC