Hammer Spring Rail Replacement

[Gordon Holley]

Thanks Mike, good suggestion and I'll use this soon.  
My regards, Gordon Holley

On 16 Oct 2002 at 7:28, Mike Kurta wrote:

>     Gordon:
>     To remove the square nuts easily from the stickers after the rubber
> grommets have broken away, take a 1/4" drive socket extension, any length.
> Chuck it into your drill, and voila!  You now have a custom nut removal
> tool.  The square end fits the nut perfectly.   You may have to drill up
> into the female end of the extension to create clearance for the threads on
> the rod, but its easily done.  If the nuts are very tight, you may have to
> hold the rod with a small vise grip to keep it from twisting.  Also, if the
> tool slips in your drill chuck, grind 3 flats on the male end, or if you
> want to get fancy, weld a screwdriver bit to the end and put it in your
> power screwdriver.
>     Mike Kurta
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordon Holley" <gholley@hi-techhousing.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Hammer Spring Rail Replacement
> 
> 
> > Thanks Gordon.  When I took the rail off and inspected it and the
> > springs, it was straight and not warpped.  However,  your suggestion
> > will be so helpful in the future should I ever worked on another on
> > of these actions (G).  Rubber grommets hardened, breaking off when I
> > removed the sticker from the fork, screwed threads of the sticker
> > above the nut rusted or coated with mouse pi_ _. Hope I can get the
> > nuts off when I put new grommets on. Boy, first one of these I've
> > worked on and I get a crudded mess.  However, guess you might as well
> > grin and get on with it.
> > Thanks again Gordon, Regards, Gordon Holley
> > On 15 Oct 2002 at 7:34, gordon stelter wrote:
> >
> > > On the subject of spring rails: Often I find uneven
> > > touch on uprights due to warpage in the spring rail. I
> > > remedy by screwinmg a very small aluminum angle along
> > > the edge of the spring rail, notched for action
> > > brackets, etc..
> > > --- Gordon Holley <gholley@hi-techhousing.com> wrote:
> > > > Thanks Jerry for the assistance, do appreciate the
> > > > help.
> > > > Regards, Gordon
> > > > On 15 Oct 2002 at 6:54, G GRAVINA wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Gordon,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've had success replacing whole sets of springs
> > > > in original
> > > > > rails.  Replacement springs are available from
> > > > Schaff, part numbers 519A,
> > > > > 519B and 3777.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerry Gravina, RPT
> > > > > Babylon, NY
> > > > >
> > > > >    At 09:18 AM 10/14/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > > > > >List.  I need information on securing a new
> > > > hammer spring rail for a
> > > > > >Baldwin-Howard, Spinet, drop action, with
> > > > stickers.  Some springs are
> > > > > >broken, others are all bent, in general hammers
> > > > won't return.  I
> > > > > >found in the archives a discussion between John
> > > > Ross, Newton Hunt,
> > > > > >Patrick Draine and Clyde Hollinger, Aug 1999, a
> > > > source of Pratt Winn
> > > > > >and Wade Boggs, where John Ross suggests they
> > > > will build a new one if
> > > > > >one were to send them the old one.  They would
> > > > duplicate it with a
> > > > > >replacement rail for a reasonable price.
> > > > > >Does anyone have further information on this with
> > > > an address, phone
> > > > > >number, e-mail address, etc.
> > > > > >Thank you all for the pending help.  Regards,
> > > > Gordon Holley, Goshen,
> > > > > >IN
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