This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Carl, How did you locate the key button position? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California Original message From: "Carl Meyer" To: spalding48@earthlink.net, "Pianotech List" Received: 2/5/2006 10:33:12 AM Subject: Re: Key Button Installation Here is a picture of a one inch sander with a clamped board behind usin= g short ends of angle brackets to serve as a stop. Adjust position wit= h a straight edge against the belt and clamp with a couple of squeeze c= lamps. Now the second picture shows how you can just zip off the overhang with= out taking a bunch of wood off the key. First time I tried this withou= t the stop, the dam key almost disappeared. Use 35 or 50 grit belts. = Works fast. Carl Meyer PTG assoc Santa Clara, Ca. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Spalding To: Pianotech List Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 3:13 AM Subject: RE: Key Button Installation Terry, David Betts gave a class on this (in Nashville?). Can't find the han= dout. For each section of keys, cut the new buttons to the average an= gle and wider than the key. Installation is in the keyframe in two bat= ches, every other key so you have clearance in between. Or three bat= ches, if you want to do the blacks separate from the whites. Keys rest= ing on wooden bars so they are level and at the right height. May hav= e to remove front punchings. Straight edge on top of keys along front = of buttons for alignment, both angular and front-to-back. Side-to-side= alignment is provided by the balance rail pin. No clamps required: T= ite-bond, hold in place for count of 7, move on. When fully cured, tr= im flush to key with band saw, finish with sandpaper block. 2 hours so= unds optimistic, would you settle for 4 to 5? Clear as mud?? Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Farrell To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: 2/4/2006 10:02:19 PM Subject: Key Button Installation I need to install new key buttons on 88 keys. Never done it before. I h= ave the Journals on CD, but have never been able to do a search on them= . I found an old article by Fern Henry that described a very simple met= hod/jig to do this task. The few articles I have found suggest that man= y techs prefer to replace button rather than rebush and complete the ta= sk in about two hours. In two hours, following a modified Fern Henry me= thod, I have eight keys done. I've got 80 to go. At this pace it will t= ake me the better part of a week to install a set of key buttons. Is an= yone aware of a good article in the PTG Journal that describes the proc= edure? I see the Jaras Key Button jig in the Schaff catalog - anyone ha= ve an opinion on that? Anyone got any other favorite/excellent-result/f= ast method of replacing key buttons? Thanks for any input. Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/24/2b/b6/c6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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