Importance of the staple: was hammer felt (Renner Blues)

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In a message dated 9/22/2002 7:08:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
kswafford@earthlink.net writes:


> Subj:Re: Importance of the staple: was hammer felt (Renner Blues) 
> Date:9/22/2002 7:08:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:kswafford@earthlink.net">kswafford@earthlink.net</A>
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> > My info from several classes at conventions is that staples are only 
> > there because "the consumer expects them".
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                 Kent Wrote
           > Maybe. Earlier this summer I came to a Steinway L with a set of 
> Ronsen 
> hammers less than a year old. The hammer felt had popped loose from one 
> side of the molding of a single hammer. When I removed the offending 
> hammer from the action, I found that the staple had been pulled out of 
> the molding, but that the staple had never been installed properly; the 
> staple had been bent up and one leg of the staple had never reached the 
> wood of the molding. It just made me wonder, had both legs of the 
> staple made it to the wood, would it have been enough to keep the felt 
> from popping loose? Was it just a coincidence that the felt with the 
> bad staple came loose?
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>                Hi Kent

                       It wouldn't have made any difference if the staples 
had gone in. Ray has had a bit of trouble with some batches of glue in the 
recent past but this has been resolved. I order all my hammers from him 
without staples. I've taken spare hammers and tried to pull the felt off . 
It's not possible, the wood will come off first.
              Dale Erwin




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