---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 2/20/05 7:02:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, custos3@comcast.net writes: Has anyone encountered a problem with one of those gradual-descent fallboards freezing? I have a customer with a 7 ft. Bosendorfer with one of those who really has to push down very hard to close the fallboard - and then really crank on it to get it open again. For what that thing cost, I suspect that the fallboard should work. The piano is probably out of warranty - it's the second owner. Not knowing how those mechanisms work, I hesitate to start pumping lubricants into them. The only other bit of data I can add is that the piano lives in a cool, moist, foggy environment. Anyone have any idea how to deal with this? Hi Israel, If it's the same one that they have in Seiler grands, there should be a small hex-head screw (I think it's a 3 mm) on the side of the fallboard where the mechanism is. Try to back it out and see if it works a little better. Tell your customer NOT to force the fallboard down. The reason I know about this mechanism is because I have a customer who tried to aid the descent of the fallboard and ended up causing delamination of the wood and stripped the screw holes that hold the mechanism in place by pushing too exuberantly. Thanks for your instruction at the technical institute last weekend! Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/85/ea/79/6a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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