Sticky Sticker Situation

[Clyde Hollinger]

Joe,

Removing two damper heads and using them as you say is a new trick I 
never heard of.  But then again I've only been in the business 24 
years.  How many other great time saving tricks are out there that I 
don't know of?!

I was in a class by Ernie Juhn a couple years before he died.  He 
deliberately pulled off the finger rail, which stunned many of us who 
somewhere along the line struggled to get all those finger things back 
in position.  Then he showed us how easily they can be put back in 
place.  It involved placing the action on a table or on the floor in a 
position where one could easily insert the finger guide pins one by 
one.  It took only a little time, maybe five minutes or so, to have all 
the pins back in place.

Sorry I can't remember exactly what that position was, but if you ever 
get in this fix I want you to know there is a pretty easy way.  
Experiment until you figure it out.  This only happened to me once when 
I took an action out to replace a string.  The client was a decades-long 
friend of my dad's, so he worked at getting things together while I did 
the string repair.  I was sooo glad for his help!

Regards,
Clyde

Joseph Garrett wrote:

>Sheesh! I thought everyone knew how to do this. The two dampers/heads,  on
>either side of the "break", are most likely to get "trashed" when
>removing/installing an Acrosonic action. So, kill two birds with one load of
>pellets. 1. Remove those two dampers/heads and re-install them on the metal
>guide pin. One on #1 and the other on #88. This will hold them all on the
>rail while you do...#2. Remove the action. For installing the action, just
>reverse the process.<G>
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