Didn't Danny Boone publish something exactly along that line? Avery At 12:23 PM 12/31/2005, you wrote: >Hi, >Been thinking along the lines that there ought to be a better way to set >upright damper timing outside the piano. Spoons included! > At the Yamaha factory they had a little motor that pulsed the damper pedal >to wink the dampers. ( the hammers were not installed until damper >regulation was finished ) >We usually do not have the pleasure of having the hammers out of the way. >Nor are we doing 50+ dampers as a rule. >1. Going to try vise grips clipped to the sustain lever end opperated with >the left hand and regulate with the right hand. >2. measure the string distance plus 1/8" and make a jig to hold a bar to >regulate dampers to touch. Sort of like the Carl Meyer Key leveling bar. >Spoons: >3. Add a sliding jig offset of 1/4" amd regulate all flat dampers to just >clear when whippen is raised. >4. Regulate wedge and bichord dampers to measurments from points on the >front of the damper wood with jig slider on the bar. > >Items 2, 3, and 4 have not been made yet, but I gotta start somewhere<G> >Joe Goss RPT >Mother Goose Tools >imatunr@srvinet.com >www.mothergoosetools.com >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Dorr" <a440@bresnan.net> >To: "piano tech list" <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 10:23 AM >Subject: Trailer ideas? > > > > > > > > Hi All! > > > > Happy New Year! > > > > One of my first investments in 2006 is likely to be a trailer for moving > > pianos. I'm thinking 5' x 8', enclosed, of course. I would love to hear >from > > those of you who move pianos in your business ideas about things/features >to > > look for and to avoid. I will have to custom-order mine in order to get >the > > top-to-bottom clearance high enough to clear larger uprights and grands. > > > > Secondary question: What are your favorite moving methods? I like to use >a > > piano sled on top of a 4-wheel dolly. I also have the separate dollies >that > > attach to each end of a vertical piano, and are held on by the straps > > stretching end to end, but sometimes going over lips and thresholds my > > "helpers" are too lazy to actually LIFT the dang thing and the lip of the > > dolly can catch and try to work its way off of the piano. Once this >happened > > and it busted up the bottom of the piano pretty good. Took me DAYS of >work to > > restore that! > > > > Thanks, > > John Dorr > > Helena, Montana > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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