Dear Ferdinand and List Thank you very much for your information, and I will proceed to contact Story & Clark. I have to add that I had the chance already to repair five of these player piano, and I am servicing eight more, they were all part of a lot that arrived to Venezuela between 1980 and 1985. I have not found any of them with pouch problems, but I also suspect they had several models. For the time being I had the circuit boards fixed locally and I added a Relay to the vaccum pump motor were the circuit burnt. Aniway I wanted to find out this information, because I promissed the owners I would try to supply them with new parts. The other part that gave me problems is the Paper Roll motor which for some reason i donīt know, but I suspect the material they used in the brushes, builds up dirt on the ( Sorry I forgot the name in English of the part of the motor where the brushes make contact ) and that in turn lowers the resistance adding to the motor load on the circuit. Now this problem only occured on the earliest models. and the solution I found was disassemblig the motor when servicing and cleaning the whatīs its name ( This model also had different circuit board, one that was made up of two parts Power Supply separated from Main PCB. The third problem occured on the late models All the pneumatics used for lifting the keys are made of a sort of Vynil and they have also a Vinil tab glued to them where the lifting rod goes in. This tabs became loose and it was practically impossible to glue them back because of the material, till I came across a very powerfull glue that did the job. I used dental acrilyc (the same dentists use to meke teeth. The oldest were I used this glue itīs been working for over a year now. All of them had problems with the transmission belt which I was able to substitute with a similar belt from a harware store originally intended for some kind of sewing machine. I am giving you all the description so you can figure out the models. But until now I have not found any with problems with the pouches. So as you can see, the only real problem I have is to keep my promisse to the owners with what I consider the most delicate parts the PCB. and the roller motor. By factory all of them were model P2 now the ones with circuit an motor problems had serial No between 74... and 78... the ones with glue problems were all serial 79... Regards Elian Degen degen@telcel.net.ve ---------- From: Ferdinand Pointer <fphinizy@pipeline.com> To: pianotech@byu.edu Subject: Re: Universal (Classic, Story & Clark) Piano Player
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