[pianotech] Jack Springs

[David Ilvedson]

I think Schaff will be straight with you...reputable company we should be doing business with when they have something we want...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "John Ross" <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 3/11/2010 2:22:14 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Jack Springs


>3776, is for a spinet.
>The Upright spring used to be the same, but longer.
>On asking Schaff, would they say to me yes, we have been having lots  
>of complaints about noise, and being harder to put on.
>Or might they just say, no, they are great, till they get rid of their  
>present inventory? :-)
>John Ross
>Windsor, Nova Scotia
>On 11-Mar-10, at 6:13 PM, wimblees at aol.com wrote:

>>
>> It is from Schaff, item number 527A, upright jack spring.
>> The physical properties are equal taper from top and bottom, to a  
>> compacting of a couple of coils, in the centre, like each end.
>> The old springs were a double at each end, and the winding went  
>> wider in the middle.
>> I've not used this one. I only have the 3776, which I use for all my  
>> spring replacements, and seem to work just fine.
>>
>> Wim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>
>> To: pianotech at ptg.org
>> Sent: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 12:06 pm
>> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Jack Springs
>>
>> I guess you are right Wim, I am just enquiring about others  
>> experience. Ethical is obviously the wrong word choice.
>> It is from Schaff, item number 527A, upright jack spring.
>> The physical properties are equal taper from top and bottom, to a  
>> compacting of a couple of coils, in the centre, like each end.
>> The old springs were a double at each end, and the winding went  
>> wider in the middle.
>> John Ross,
>> Windsor, Nova Scotia.
>> On 11-Mar-10, at 5:46 PM, wimblees at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if it is ethical to indicate which item and catalogue,  
>>> I am talking about.
>>> John Ross
>>> Not to get off the subject, but why would be unethical not to talk  
>>> about product from a certain supply or manufacturing that you think  
>>> is inadequate? I think this is one of the great things about this  
>>> list. We tell each other what works and what doesn't work.
>>> Wim
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>
>>> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>>> Sent: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 11:38 am
>>> Subject: [pianotech] Jack Springs
>>>
>>> I was going to order some upright jack springs, as I am down to my  
>>> last set.
>>> The diagram I see in the catalogue that it shows a new different  
>>> spring. It appears to be of a larger guage.
>>> The spinet springs look the same.
>>> Would someone like to comment on these new springs.
>>> A fellow tech, told me of some new springs he was supplied in  
>>> Canada, and he didn't like them, saying they were harder to  
>>> install, and were noisier.
>>> I think that these must be the ones he was referring to, the  
>>> Canadian supplier obviously is supplied by the US firm.
>>> He actually talked me out of my second last set. Now I see what he  
>>> was referring to.
>>> I don't know if it is ethical to indicate which item and catalogue,  
>>> I am talking about.
>>> John Ross
>>> Windsor, Nova Scotia.
>>>
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