YC Growing Brackets

[Farrell]

Man, I'll tell you what - be careful trying to get that action out! I had to let the glide bolts all the way up, press down on the center rail, and I still couldn't get it all the way out. I wiggled and squiggled and finally got the shank flange screws out from under the stretcher, removed the treble flange screws which let me wiggle the flanges forward and got the drop screw away from the pinblock/stretcher enough that I could finally get it out. Took me about 35 minutes to get it out from when I first started yanking. If that thing had grown just a little bit more, I really don't know what I would have done (I guess I could have drove home and got my chainsaw). This woman said that she previously had played the piano, but had not touched it in several years. He small children were ready to start lessons and she noticed that the keys "didn't seem to play as well as they used to"!

Action spread on a YC is supposed to be 112.5 mm (courtesy of John Ross 10/18/00). This one was about 122 mm.

One warning I can think of is that on this piano, others had taken the action out before me - I saw all the gouges in the bottom of the pinblock - but they just dragged the action out with the drop screws screaming - AND chipped the polyester finish at the base of the stretcher - nice touch (that's why I loosened the hammer shank flanges).

Heads up guy - you'll have fun - I did. And thanks to this list and previous posts about growing action brackets, I think I did a pretty good job of appearing like I knew what I was doing and talking about. Thanks Listees!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: YC Growing Brackets


> Hi Terry,
> 
> Strange that you should mention this right now. I have to go look at one this
> Friday that, from what they told me, probably is this very thing. It'll be my
> first time, so I'm interested in all of the responses.
> 
> Avery
> 
> At 02:04 PM 06/04/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >Yahoo! I think I finally have my first case of growing action brackets. 
> >Quite a job getting that action out of the action cavity! What is the best 
> >and definitive way to determine if it is the brackets? Action spread?
> >
> >It has all the symptoms - drop screws grinding into the pinblock, the long 
> >axis of the hammer rail looking like one of Del's 5 meter radius ribs, 
> >lost motion in keys in treble and bass, etc. But I suspect there might be 
> >a definitive way to know for sure. Anyone?
> >
> >Who to talk to at YC? Thanks.
> >
> >And what does this job entail? Replace and regulate I suspect?
> >
> >Terry Farrell
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