loose/tight flanges

[Farrell]

Or just pop the hammer rail off! Lighter to work with than the whole stack.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: loose/tight flanges


> 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
>