Kent, I agree. I just hate to have to fix a problem "that" way when it should have been done correctly in the first place! :-) I guess I'm just too used to the rebuilders I use (2 other D's) who do it correctly in the first place! Avery At 08:01 PM 05/27/03 -0500, you wrote: >On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 07:31 PM, Avery Todd wrote: > >>But your suggestions could solve the >>problems until I can get the real problem corrected. > >I'm with Ed. Functionally, slicing the hammer felt so that it does not >extend so far down the distal side of the hammer molding is a real fix of >a real problem and takes only minutes. (Relative to the amounts of time >that many of our procedures take, like installing new backchecks in this >instance, the slicing of felt takes almost no time.) If you depress the >hammer from its rest position, you want the shank to contact its rebound >cushion before the back of the hammer felt can contact the back check. If >there is some advantage to lowering the backcheck rather than removing >hammer felt, it escapes me. ? But installing lower backchecks sure could >take more time, to fix a problem we didn't cause. > >Kent Swafford > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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