<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Ed,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>That's what Eric Schandall taught, and Kathy Smith as well (though she might have got it from Eric). Kathy likes to do springs from the back (action assembly turned so the checks are facing you), as your right hand can then snap them out to the right (a little more natural motion). Me, I just turn the tool and do it from the front. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I don't know that it is common currency. And I am not sure that all butterfly springs (all brands) are coiled the same way. I think all Steinway ones are. And I have the strong impression that Kawai are as well. I don't think I ever read about it, though. I believe it is good policy, and more efficient.<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 Sep 17, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Ed Sutton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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 bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm reconditioning a set of wippens, and have them off the stack. As I was cleaning gunk out of the rep lever groove and cleaning the spring tip, I looked under the lever, at the allignment of the spring coil, and it occured to me that when the spring is snapped out of the groove and over to the bass side of the lever, the coil can open easily when you yank on the tip of the spring to make it stronger. Snap it out to the treble side and it jams against the underside of the rep lever when you pull. </font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">It seems to me this would be a good policy - snap the spring out to the bass side when adjusting spring tension.</font></div><div> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I don't recall reading or being taught to do it this way. Have I missed something, or am I imagining that something insignificant really matters?</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ed Sutton</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>