---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 7/22/02 12:11:14 AM Central Daylight Time, pcpoulso@pacbell.net writes: > Hello all: I have the action from a 1927 Story and Clark grand in the shop, > with peculiar repetition springs. They loop up out of the jack window, > curve backwards, and hook onto a string loop that comes out of the top of > the wippen. Has anyone worked on such an animal before, and if so, is there > a way to adjust the spring tension short of disengaging it from the loop, > bending it, and then replacing it? I am leery about doing it that way, > because the loops are cotton and some of them have snapped already. I fear > that I may have to just break down and replace them all. Help Mister > Wizard! > Patrick Poulson, RPT > > Patrick There might not be an easier way to do this, but I would suggest you tug hard on all those cotton strings, and make sure they don't break. Whenever I have an action in the shop with cotton strings in the wippens, I give them all a hard tug. I want them to break in the shop, where I can repair then on my bench, with plenty of light, tools, equipment, etc., instead of getting call a couple of weeks or months later with a complaint that a key doesn't work, and having to replace the string in the customer's home. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f1/c8/37/3b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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