David writes: >>I wanted to adjust the damper upstop rail on a rebuilt M&H AA yesterday. The rail was set too high. I pulled the action and found the upstop rail was nailed in place with 4 nails all driven flush. Anyone ever run into this before?<< Oh yes, the flush part is usually not a factory thing, somebody later on wasn't thinking. You will need to pry the rail, right at each nail, until there is a little gap, then tap the rail back flush to expose enough nail to get pliers of some sort on. (or do what I did 30 years ago, try to dig around the nails to get some grip and just screw the whole thing up... regards, Ed Foote RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091204/243f548b/attachment.htm>
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