..damper seating..

[Jon Page]

I have had success using the end of an adjustable crescent wrench.
Place the hole in the wrench over the pin and apply pressure as needed.
Jon Page

At 10:25 AM 2/7/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Mike, if I understand what you are experiencing, you might appreciate this
>bit of information.  *Don't* change the position of the action support
>bolts to make the action easier to remove.  Instead, modify the action
>nose/retaining bolts, where the action bracket retaining forks hold the
>action in place, by forcing them upwards a bit.
>
>After removing the action without changing the action support bolts (it can
>be done with the aid of hammer shank pliers and some tugging), use a
>regular claw hammer or such, and bend the offending bolts upwards by
>hitting them.  Or use the handle of an extension tuning lever by sliding
>the handle onto the nose bolt, and bend the offending bolts upwards.
>Keith A. McGavern


Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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