question and question about archives

[J Patrick Draine]

Tom,
My recollection from Don Mannino's class on repinning action centers
is that he developed the "Mannino reamers" while he was service
manager at Young Chang (ps. Jurgen has some pretty cool pinning
supplies). I don't know that YC made your Wurlitzer, but i think it is
a safe asumption that other Korean manufacturers had roughly the same
problems.
Don found that with proper reaming repinning was the correct solution.
I know, all of us wish a spritz of Protek would be the perfect
solution 100% of the time, but that isn't always the case. If the
customer is too frustrated with the jacks to put you in set repinning
mode, they can always trade up to a Yammy, Kawai, Walter etc.
Patrick Draine

On 2/10/07, Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> List
>
> I have a client with a 5 year old Wurlitzer grand.  It has had an ongoing
> problem with tight action centers.  I have already repinned all the hammer
> flanges; many of which would swing only once or twice, before the
> repinning.  CLP worked only temporarily, thus the repinning.
>
> Now the jacks are starting to freeze up.  Now I could go ahead and repin all
> the jacks, but I recall something on the list recently about these pianos
> and someone had dealt with this problem in the past.
>
> I tried searching the archives, but a search of "Wurlitzer" yielded over
> 2400 hits on Google (that's how the archives are searched now, through
> Google, I guess) and a search of "Wurlitzer action centers" yielded 5, none
> of which were of this recent thread in which this problem was discussed.
>
> Other than repinning, is there any solution for this problem?  And...I seem
> to recall, from that recent post-thread...that repinning didn't help,
> ultimately, either.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Sivak
> Chicago