Roger & Ed, thanks for the encouragement. Here's a photo of the relocated knuckle and reinforced yoke. This is a 1971 L donated to the Cape Cod Conservatory. Heavy action, high friction readings but no binding components. Moving the knuckle should drop the friction to a reasonable level. The original knuckles were 11mm wide. This produced excessive after touch and a drop screw head buried into the flange. I'm confident the knuckle relocation and size reduction will bring the action around to a manageable regulation. One argument to be made for not replacing the shanks is that these are seasoned, new ones would travel and twist in the coming years. I think Teflon bushing are Ok, it's the unstable wood around them that causes the problems. Now on to graduating their weight and repinning. I'll also be installing underlever assist springs and replacing the single string felts. Fun & Games. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: relocated knuckle.jpg Type: application/octet-stream Size: 77543 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101126/a5603976/attachment-0001.obj>
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