Good news! I'm not doing a full restore or regulation ... just some center pin work. I don't even like regulating regular (repetitive redundancy?) spoons. As to removing the hammer/flange assembly, the first ones I tried were right next to the center brackets so there was no room to turn the hammer head to slip it out ... hence more disassembly than I wanted to do! Someone SHOULD rebuild this piano, but the customer is A) Elderly, B) An infrequent, half-hearted player, and C) Not going to invest much in this piano that the family got for free 40 years ago. Thanks to all who responded. Alan Barnard Salem, MO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:34 PM Subject: Re: 1906 Steinway Upright > At 10:02 PM -0600 12/10/02, <tune4u@earthlink.net> wrote: > >2. Is there any reasonable way to remove a Steinway double flange > >assembly, hammer, and butt without disassembling the whole action? > > The whips certainly wouldn't need to come off just to extract a > double (or set of 88 thereof). The spring rail might look as if it's > in the way, but as long as both the damper levers and hammer butts > are pinned with brass plates, it's not. > > Must be you're thinking of replacing the double flanges, and not much > else. Seems to me the subject came up here recently. > > >3. I love the little "C" shaped spoons that curve around the wippen > >flange screw! > > What I love about them is that if you spoon bender catches the spoons > up in that semicircle part in stead of the vertical base, the spoon > simply rotates instead or bending. I look forward to hearing you vent > steam during the course of your involvement with the action. <g> > (Then of course there are the solid wooden spoons of 20 years > earlier.) > > Bill Ballard RPT > NH Chapter, P.T.G. > > "May you work on interesting pianos." > ...........Ancient Chinese Proverb > +++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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