No it will not be safe for the action. I never lay any action on its back because of the damper felt. I won't even lay it on its back in my shop. One accidental bump can screw something up. If the action slides around in the car you can very easily have damper problems. The damper are very fragile. Care must be taken at all times. Turn the action upside down and lay it on its front side instead. Lay it on a moving blanket or something in your vehicle to help prevent it from sliding around in the vehicle. Jer From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Gisondi Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 9:18 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] drop actions Hi Everyone, I have a customer whos acion I'm finally taking back to her tomorow. She was out of the country for a month and she finallygot back with me. The action is a drop action from a Winter spinet. Since I took the action back in October, yes this things been done and sitting in my basement for over a month. Since then we had to get a different car because the old suv we had died. So my question is will it be safe to lay this action on its back against the dampers in the trunk of this old Jetta we purchaased. NO I didn't want the Jetta, but it was cheap and someone a friend of our knew so sometimes price dictates. :-) So will this be safe for the action? Is there any chance of bending spoons or will they be OK? thanks Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 www.phillytuner.com <http://www.phillytuner.com/> Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> Vancouver, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110124/622d7307/attachment-0001.htm>
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