[pianotech] Bending Sostenuto mounts

[David Nereson]

Can't you remove the mount, plug the hole, re-drill and re-install?
--David Nereson, RPT

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Dale Erwin <erwinspiano at aol.com> wrote:

> I believe the sos. studs are brass David. Warm them a bit and bend at
> your ouw risk.
> Dale
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 4:57 pm
> Subject: [pianotech] Bending Sostenuto mounts
>
>  Working on an older MH A.  Discovered that the damper tray is mounted about
> 3 mm high on the treble side.  I can remove the pivot block and relocate the
> pivot pin hole 3 mm lower easily enough. However, the sostenuto mounts were
> also installed to match the damper tray misalignment and are also 3 mm high
> on the treble side.  They will need to be realigned to match the orientation
> of the damper tray. So I'm wondering about bending these mounts, how much
> bending will they take and what's the best way to go about it (strung
> already of course).  I have installed capstans on the tray but the 3 mm
> disparity would have them pretty much bottomed out on one and, well, 3 mm
> higher on the other end.
>
> Gee, maybe that Steinway system isn't so bad after all.
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> Thanks in advance
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> David Love
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