I do believe the word I used was tap. John Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia On 20-Mar-10, at 7:04 PM, PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote: > With everyone recommending banging the brackets off the bolts, you > might want to realize that the bracket metal is not made to > withstand a lot of pounding or leverage pressure. Claw hammers? You > really don't want to have to replace an action bracket. If you have > an upright shank removal tool (you know, the one with the mickey- > mouse ears), you can use it to gently but with good force lever the > brackets forward. > > The other suggested option of turning down the action bracket studs > is risky unless you know exactly how far down you turn them (index, > mark, count, etc), then turn them back to the original position when > the action is replaced. > > P > > In a message dated 3/20/2010 3:00:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, pianoman at duanemcguire.com > writes: > What is the process to remove an action from a 1958 Story and Clark > spinet? > > Back story: > I've been tuning in my shop every morning, preparing for the RPT > exam. As a tuner, I'm not even close to part-time. But since I'm > preparing for the exam, I've poked my head out the foxhole, and have > been tuning a few pianos in the wild. This is how I discovered > spinet pianos! > > For this piano, I discovered that a a treble string was broken. I > thought I could be of service and replace the string. But since the > bridge pins were hidden behind the action, it seemed that I would > need to remove the action to do the repair. I loosened the nose > bolt nuts. I tugged at the top of the action bracket, and nothing > budged. At that point, I simply said to my self, "Fine! You didn't > want to find out about removing a spinet action today anyway!" So I > prudently let the sleeping dog lie. > > It seemed rather cowardly, but that's what I did. > > > -- > Duane McGuire > 801-830-5858 > http://blog.duanemcguire.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100320/dc17498a/attachment.htm>
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