[pianotech] elbows

[Dean May]

I also usually do this job with action in the piano, especially if there are
no clicks as you say, Laura. But I make it a 2 trip job. I snap off all the
elbows and gather the stickers to take into the shop. I have slave labor, my
younger children, finish cleaning the plastic off the sticker wires and
putting the new elbows on. But there is one more step I like to do. These
usually have wooden buttons for adjusting lost motion with green felt glued
on the sides around the bottom. I find that this felt swells over the years
and tends to cause binding, especially when you adjust it out of a position
that it has held for 50 years. So I twirl them against the disc sander to
remove about half of that green felt on the sides of the button. This leaves
plenty of felt to keep them quiet but eliminates all binding. 

 

Second trip back I just snap stickers and elbows into place, adjust lost
motion, done. 

 

 

Dean

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Terre Haute IN 47802

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Laura Olsen
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 4:23 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] elbows

 

Joseph,

 

You seem to presume that we have trouble removing spinet actions and find
it..."distasteful". I find this an offensive leap.  I didn't get that from
the messages I read. We all do things a little differently and sharing those
different techniques is one of the pleasures of this list.  You don't need
to make it sound like we are inept. Some may and some may not need practice
with that skill.  

There are many reasons to pull spinet actions but why turn a "one trip" job
into a "two trip" job if nothing is "clicking"?  As I said in my original
post, it's not uncomfortable for me to sit cross-legged on the floor in
front of the piano and do this job.  I'll bet I'm shorter then you.  I know
I'm shorter than Wim and many others on this list!  

 

Just seemed kind of "snarkey", Joseph.

 

Laura

 

 

 

On Nov 23, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Joseph Giandalone wrote:





 

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