Action Elevations

[Bill Ballard]

At 8:47 PM -0800 1/21/03, David Love wrote:
>Ric B:
>
>Just for the record, why would you have to choose (except in the situation
>I mentioned)?  Under ordinary circumstances, you could simply bore the
>hammers and adjust the rake so that the shank was parallel to the keybed
>and the hammer was 90 degrees to the string, even if you had varying string
>heights.

I use a small 1" square of 1/8" plexiglass, drilled perfectly square 
to the surface, for a #20.5 center pin. Turn this upside down, put 
the now-downwards center pin next to the strings on C8. Slide the 
action in, on which you've dry-fitted the new hammers to the shanks, 
and are now gluing #88 in place as a guide. Hammer #88 has a 
center-line mark on its side. Cock the hammer as needed to make its 
center line parallel to the center pin on the plexiglass square.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

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