help with reinstalling pickup fingers on Baldwin acrosonic

[Jon Page]

Nancy,
Reinstall the sticker guide rail by standing the action on a surface
with the stickers laying on that surface.

Start at one end and insert the guide pins into the hole.

Once you get a ways along, insert a mute (wire removed) onto the guide pin.
Once all pins are installed place a mute on the other end.

As you install the action, grip the hammer rail or brackets with your 
fingers while
holding the guide rail with your thumbs.

Lower the action behind the keys and rest the sticker fingers on the capstans.
Install the rail's screws to secure.  With this in place position the 
action brackets
on their respective mounts.


For a spinet without this guide rail (flailing stickers):
To remove action, remove keys and drape newspaper over the balance rail pins.
Do this by inserting the paper from behind the keybed between it and 
the stickers,
drawing the paper up and over the key pins.

This way you can simply lift the action and the stickers won't get 
tangled in the pins.

To reinstall the action, place the paper over the pins, Let the 
stickers hang down and
drag them across the paper in reverse conditions of removing the action.


It's really fairly simple.  And you get the hang of reinstalling the 
sticker guide rail pins
after two or three times.
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Regards,

Jon Page