On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Kurt Baxter wrote: > > Why not just glue all the felts you have back on? > > -- > > I am still considering this option, but being that there are about 7 > missing felts, once I find salvaged hammers that fit, match/drill/ > glue those hammers *in place* (and glue/clamp the 12 lifting felts), > or pull the whole thing and take it to the shop, the cost could be > well on way towards a new set of hammers, AND with the added risk > that that rest of the hammers could fail at any time. > > Plus, this client actually seems interested in doing the job right. > It's just giving me a bit of whiplash that I found a spinet owner > interested in doing any piano repair job right. Fair enough - just thought I'd throw that out there. Sounds like you're headed in the right direction. > A bit off the topic, has anyone here ever done a full rebuild on a > spinet? A spinet? Well, not just ANY spinet - how 'bout a 1948 Wurly spinet from Mars (or, obviously from somewhere else in the solar system)? Sorry for the poor quality pictures, but these were taken by my first digital camera a good ten years ago. Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110105/7f5d47df/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: May25_08.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 50341 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110105/7f5d47df/attachment-0003.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: May25_11.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 34188 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110105/7f5d47df/attachment-0004.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: May25_07.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 37545 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110105/7f5d47df/attachment-0005.jpg>
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