On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Susan, > > > > Sure… I had completed action work on a vertical. I filed hammers, > replaced bridal straps, cleaned it all up spotless, etc., it came out > beautiful. The next day, I went to my shop to retrieve the action wearing a > tie all set to return it shortly thereafter. I leaned over the action to > double check the hammers and other things when the tie clasp let loose of > the tie. It was probably only partially grabbing it to begin with, I don’t > know and I don’t care now but, it allowed the tie to go over top of the > hammers. When I leaned back up and turned to walk away to my office, the > backside of the tie caught on something on the action yanking the action off > from the bench and onto the floor smashing it. I had broken hammers, broken > dampers, broken wippens and a broken action bracket. That was the last time > I wore a tie. > > > > Jer > > > Dang ... think of all the income you have missed over the years by not continuing to wear "the tie." You could afford to break two actions a year. <G> -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110126/622c2a12/attachment.htm>
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