<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I guess I should have mentioned, stack "upside down" on the bench. Hammers and flange screws contacting the bench, wipp cushions up. Letoff button felts facing up.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Aug 22, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Fred Sturm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It's nice when the letoff rail can be removed. Makes for easier access. (I do remove them on uprights, when I go to that trouble). <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I made little wooden sanding paddles the width (plus a little) of the buttons, for individual ones that are out of line with the others. Popsicle sticks are about right. Nail files (with rough garnet grit or the like) are a little flimsy but can work. Where possible (meaning the bulk of the buttons are pretty much level with one another), I gang file, using those metal flexible paddles from Pianotek (PermaGrit, I think is the brand). So I go over a section with the metal paddle, then touch up the ones I didn't quite reach with the little wooden paddle.<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Same kind of thing ironing them: use the full clothes iron over the whole section, then touch up using just the tip on the ones that are out of line. Or use a keybushing broach in a heat controlled soldering iron. DO pay attention to the angle. It's easy to iron them all "off-parallel" (How would I know? <G>) Not a good thing. Kind of defeats the whole purpose, and turns it into a cam effect.</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Aug 22, 2008, at 3:09 PM, <a href="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com">reggaepass@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Fred (& List), <div><br> </div> <div>I like your idea of sanding the impression made by the jack out of the cloth punching on the let-off button.  However, I have yet to come up with an efficacious way to do it .  Please be so kind as to share the details of your procedure with me and the list.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Many thanks,</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Alan Eder<br> <br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_e1a26ce5-cd28-4e18-a790-57ae35ce6d48" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"><br> </div>  </div> <div id="u8CAD2B26F8DC657-1FF4-1DE0" class="aol_ad_footer"><font style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><hr style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"><a title="http://mapquest.com/toolbar?ncid=mpqmap00050000000010" href="http://mapquest.com/toolbar?ncid=mpqmap00050000000010" target="_blank">Get the MapQuest Toolbar</a>. Directions, Traffic, Gas Prices & More!</font> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>