Greetings, It will be about the same size as the other end. Your hole placement will be as high as the other, assuming your keyends are even across their span. If you are keeping the old tray, you can measure the distance from each of the key ends to the distal wall of the action cavity and work backwards from there, or put the tray in the optimum in/out position for wires' verticality and determine where the hole should be by distance from the distal wall. I use a depth gauge to measure the distance from the pin to the wall, and then subtract half the diameter of the pin to determine where the hole should be drilled, or, you can copy the remaining block, drill a trial hole, and go from there. It is easy to plug a mis-drilled hole, (damhik). Hardest part is getting the hole right for the mounting screw. I would place a punching, with just a spot of glue on one side directly over the hole in the piano, and with more glue on the front, press the block on to it so that the punching transfers to the back of the block. Drill there. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html -----Original Message----- From: David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 7:40 pm Subject: [pianotech] Damper tray block Here's something I've never had to do. Make one of the end blocks for aSteinway damper tray (yep, can't find it). Any hints?David Lovewww.davidlovepianos.com
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