[pianotech] Expanding Brackets time?

[Allen Fisher]

Susan, Haven't done it in awhile but an Unger heat gun aimed at the correct spot for removing those stubborn plastic elbows works well! Pulls them off like taffy.
Al Fisher, RPT

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:30:42 -0800
From: skline at peak.org
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Expanding Brackets time?




  


Not sure just how long it
will take, Joe. Of course the first time takes 

longer. SOMEWHERE around here I have the data sheet sent out the first
time 

I did one -- the other two times I didn't receive it. It had the spread
figure, 

and an order of operations. 



You may have to set up two different times for this job -- the first
two times, 

the new brackets fit perfectly. The third time, the holes for the two
middle 

brackets (in front) were the wrong places, so I had to plug and redrill
-- 

also, the original screws were not quite long enough, so I had to get
longer 

ones. You might just have your Associate take along a few extra longer
screws, 

just in case. 



Once they are in, one of course has to undo the desperate
letoff-widening 

and drop-increasing which was probably done as they began to grow. 



Hope none of these are so expanded that it affects getting the action
out. 



And I just this week found an old Kohler with the yellow plastic
elbows, 

and the plastic was still pretty tough! Not many of those left. This
piano 

had one replaced elbow and one broken elbow. I'm waiting for them to
get 

more fragile. Trying to chew them off when they are still tough is a
pain 

in the neck. Had to drive out the center pins on a number the last time


that happened. 



Oh, and I have one Baldwin product with the rock-hard corfam, which is 

waiting. 



Best, 

Susan 



Joseph Garrett wrote:

  All,
I must lead a charmed life...or something like it...I've never had to
replace those pesky, expanding, grand action brackets.<G> However, I now
have an Associate that has two of them! She needs to know, approximately,
how much time it take to do that job?? I guess I need to know, as well,
so's I can insert it into the RLG, for it's next "reprint".
Thanks to any/all who respond.
Best,
Joe


Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
Captain of the Tool Police
Squares R I



  



 		 	   		  
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