David, I've done enough with "normal" bolts to know exactly what you're talking about! (That was my comment about old uprights in my first reply to Frank.) I don't know that I've ever sent a damper head flying, exactly, but I have nudged some out of whack. Fortunately, the resulting utterances have always stayed inside my head instead of escaping my lips. I've attached a couple photos, worth so many words. The first shows plenty(?) clearance at note 1. The second shows the current screws unscrewed far enough, and the action tipped back to where the brackets would clear "normal" bolts. It certainly looks to me as though it would easily clear with a modicum of care without cursing the noob (moi) who replaced the screws. Additional thoughts? Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:04 PM, David Stocker <firtreepiano at hotmail.com>wrote: > Paul, > > It is about not clobbering the dampers on the way out or back in. There are > some spinets with bolts on all but the bass/tenor break. That is the most > common place for a damper head to go flying. Do a few more of the ones with > “normal” bolts, and you too will curse the gods of piano design. (Present > company obviously exempted, Frank!) > > David Stocker, RPT > Tumwater, WA > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101227/e769b5fe/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: note1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 99536 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101227/e769b5fe/attachment-0002.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: bassSection.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 104322 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101227/e769b5fe/attachment-0003.jpg>
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