Yamaha Upright hammer flanges

[Farrell]

Roger Jolly - are you using 5 - 7 grams friction in the hammer flange centers as a general target? I know you like your centers a bit tighter than some recommend. How many swings does that come out to? Thanks.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Jolly" <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Yamaha Upright hammer flanges


> 
> Hi David,
>            It's probably cheaper to just replace the flanges, with the
> advantage of having new centre pinning. If you are going to replace the
> cord, Take one of the good flanges and a flange screw. Mount the flange on
> a piece of board, use a small panel nail and pull the loop taut, then
> hammer it into the board. 
>  Remove flange, reinstall the flange screw in the hole, and cut the head
> off.  Now you have a simple jig to make all the loops the same length.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards Roger
> 
> 
> At 12:27 AM 5/16/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >List,
> >
> >I am about to make a bid on a job to replace all the hammer flanges in a 
> >Yamaha P-22 studio upright(the threads are breaking at a prodigious rate, as 
> >per a previous post...).  My "G" works labor guide suggests that this might 
> >take me 5 hours.  Has anybody done this?  I think that Joe's estimate is 
> >reasonable, giving a bit less than 4 minutes per flange, but I wonder if 
> >anybody out there has done this job before?
> >
> >Thanks for any input!
> >
> >Dave Stahl
> >
> Roger Jolly
> Balwin Yamaha Piano Centres.
> Saskatoon/Regina.
> Canada.