<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>I believe what you have are parts behaving according to current genuine Steinway factory standards, i.e. "swing as many times as possible as long as there is no wobble side to side."</DIV> <DIV>Others of greater authority than I will either confirm or demolish this statement.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ed S.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=piano57@flash.net href="mailto:piano57@flash.net">Barbara Richmond</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 12/3/2004 11:17:25 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CAUT] Fw: mystery center pinning</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yet another question, folks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had to repin all the Steinway shanks I recently installed.  When they came, they were the best examples of perpetual motion machines I had ever seen.  Well, golly, almost all of them have loosened up again!--not to their original state, but much looser than I find acceptable. (The piano got used a couple of times while work was in progress.)   Dang, I've never had this happen before---am I in the twilight zone?  I couldn't believe my eyes.  Would shrinking the cloth help before I pin....again?   I do have plenty of high quality bushing cloth on hand.......groan.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, I was surprised the first time I repinned to find that the center pins were all .052.  That seemed sort of big for original pinning.  I replaced them with .053.  Now I feel like I'm going to end up using telephone poles to get them right.</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2> Here I thought I was almost done with this job and now this......  :-(</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>