At 2:20 pm -0500 30/8/06, daniel carlton wrote: >can someone tell me the best way to replace hammer butt springs in a >kimball? it looks like some type of cloth that holds the spring in >place. how do i get it out? what do i use to replace the cloth? (i >have the springs from Schaff already) Cut through the cord with a scalpel blade each side of the spring coils; remove the broken spring, push out the cord from the sides towards the middle using the flattened end of a wire or centre pin; buy some butt spring cord. If the cord comes without a pointed end ready made, remove the yarns from the centre for about 2", soak the remaining braid 'tube' with glue and twist it tight to give you a thin hard end to feed through the holes and the spring. Adjust the coils of the spring before installing so that the spring ends up at a right angle to the shank as in the picture. JD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060830/2eb2a4bb/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: butt.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 52342 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060830/2eb2a4bb/attachment-0001.jpg
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