loose/tight flanges

[Avery Todd]

Wim,

You can get a fairly good idea by taking off the stack, holding
it by the end brackets with the hammers toward the floor and
swinging it some. You'll see really loose ones swinging easily,
plus the ones that are fairly tight are of course, much slower.

You can do the same kind of thing by setting the stack on your
bench with the wippens facing you so you can tilt it back and
forth enough to get the wippens to move. That'll at least give
an idea of the extreme ones. Especially the really tight ones.

Of course, there's always the "measuring them with gram weights"
method. That will give you a much more accurate idea but of
course, is a lot slower.

Hope this helps a little, anyway.

Avery

At 01:23 PM 02/07/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I know how to correct the problem, but is there an easier way, other than 
>taking each of them off the rail one at a time, to check the tightness of 
>grand hammer flanges? Or, for that matter, the wippen flanges?
>
>WIm