How to adjust let-off with no adjustable capstan?

[John Ross]

No offence taken.
It is so easy to misunderstand the other person, when we can't see their 
expression, or hear the emphasis of their tone.

John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: How to adjust let-off with no adjustable capstan?


>
>> I meant a proper fix with new capstans.
>> I thought there might be a special tool.
>> I was also wondering, if anyone else might have run into one of these in 
>> their travels.
>> Just wondering, Ron.
>> Sorry for taking up your time.
>> John M. Ross
>
>
> Easy John, no offense. I just wonder why we (each of us) tend to spend 
> more of our energies that we probably should on something no one cares 
> about, trying to make an un-workable design work without changing it to 
> something we know DOES work. Seems to me you would have been done by now 
> and way ahead either attacking the thing and replacing the capstans, or 
> just ignoring them altogether. It's probably just me, so please disregard.
>
> Ron N
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