Damper tray flange screw

[Ron Nossaman]

> 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.

Yes, Jon's recommendation is the procedure that works (barely) 
in the real world, advice from the source notwithstanding. 
Remember, the source cheerfully supplied you with the original 
problem. I had a repair on a Kawai last year making a new set 
of damper tray flanges, and did essentially what Jon described 
to replace them. Any one of hundreds of experienced shop rats 
out there could design a better system half way through the 
first cup of morning coffee. It's utterly insane that this 
thing made it into, and remains in production.
Ron N