remove spinet action-(not!)

[Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre]

Rob Stuart-Vail wrote:
> 
> Re: removing the action from a Fischer spinet:
> 
> Thanks for all the help, Newton, Roger, Les, David, Guy, Karen & Tor, (and
> anyone else I missed).
> 
> 1) The old plastic damper flanges start melting when the CA glue hits them.
> 
> 2) I was able to replace the two I had removed from the piano with new
> (wooden) flanges and get them back in, thanks to my extra long screwgrabber.
> (This tool is about 24" long, and I was just asking myself the other day if I
> really needed to be carrying it around all the time <g>).
> 
> 3. Two more flanges further up the line were split.
> 
> 4. The only plastic in the piano seems to be the damper and hammer flanges.
> 
> 5) I told the client I was finished with this PSO for now, and the only way I
> would be willilng to do more work on it would be on the basis of replacing all
> the flanges on both rails, and  the damper felt (thanks, Roger!), and I would
> take care of the action bolts, too.
> 
> 6) She started thinking about this, but my quote for the work was hefty enough
> to cause pause, so I recommended she start looking for a different piano.  I
> offered to inspect (for a reasonable fee) any instruments she was interested
> in, and we parted friends.
> 
> By the way, the wooden sticker nuts (about 3/4 long) which thread onto the
> wires, are capped by leather nuts.  The unthreading of all these would have
> been a real joy.   With any kind of luck I won't ever find out!
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> Rob Stuart-Vail
Hi Rob,
       Those good quotes work most of the time. As an aside I always
change the damper felt on this type of job, it saves one heck of a pile
of head aches, plus you end up with a happy customer that has paid you a
fair rate.
Regards Roger.