This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Talked here before about the Chickering "Quarter Grand" I'm am trying to = keep alive for a client... pinblock replacement not a reasonable, = affordable option. Pins are only about 20-25 in. lbs. torque. Tunes okay, doesn't hold. Has DC installed 4 mos. ago. Pulled pin and found it is a 3/0. Judging from the piano's history, = strings' appearance and the pin size, I think this was restrung about 16 = years ago by a piano store. If so, the pinblock was probably already = showing its age then -- maybe they didn't want to jump to 4/0 for fear = of making cracks worse. Used #60 sandpaper shim, drove the pin partway in but stopped because it = seemed EXTRAORDINARILY tight. Tried to back it out with tuning = hammer--got a tuning head off that's been a permanent feature of the = hammer for 3 years--but could not budge the pin!=20 Finally used a ratchet wrench with the tip off my torque wrench and = removed the pin with considerable effort. Replaced it with a 2/0 = (sandpaper still in place) and drove it in. It now has about 75 lbs of = holding torque. Oh what a difference 0.004" can make. (Yes, I measured the pins.) Now ... if we want to shim other pins, do I have to get a set of 2/0's = or look for a thinner sandpaper? Try the veneer option? Take the piano = off life-support? Set fire to it?=20 Customer asked another funny question:"If I decide to sell it, what's it = worth?" Well, the case is beautiful, it sounds okay (if tuned maybe 4 = times a year, that is). I shaped the hammers and regulated the = action--it's not perfect but plays quite nicely. Backchecks need new = skins and regulating. So I gave him the old "whatever the buyer is willing to pay and you are = willing to accept" answer. But that seems like a rotten answer as it = gives him no clue for a starting point. Well, I don't have much = experience to help him, either. ANYONE? Alan Barnard Performing CPR (Critical Piano Repairs) in Salem, MO ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/37/69/9c/16/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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