Damper tray flange screw

[David Chadwick]

Yes Ron,, I agree. You'd think they were looking right at it when the 
designers and engineers were sending it to production. I give it the WTF 
award!

However, I received a message from John Baird (list admin) in my attempt to 
send the photo (too large) and he replied with his experience that was 
similar. I'll quote here the advice that he received from the source "I 
talked with Steinway/Boston's Kent Webb, and he said there is no solution 
other than to remove the dampers and back action. HOWEVER, (writes John)  a 
fellow technician made a tool out of a 6" steel ruler, with various bends 
that allowed him to tighten these screws."

I think Jon Page's recommendation is probably the closest thing to access 
this fastener but a time consuming process which my customer will not like 
the bill.

David C.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: Damper tray flange screw


>
>> Looks like you can unscrew the block and lower the tray to access the 
>> flange screw.
>>
>> But in order to remove the block, you'll first have to unscrew the 
>> assembly from the
>> belly rail. Unscrew the damper guide rails and jockey the whole 
>> shootin'-match
>> forwards to access the block screws with a long screw driver blade, down 
>> through
>> the strings.  Not as hard as it sounds.
>
>
> Sub-genius design, nonetheless. The thing easily could, and should, have 
> been designed to be serviceable without having to do this.
> Ron N
>