<HTML><HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Matthew,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>I see someone else has already answered regarding screw starters.  I assumed you were referring to routing the power cord for vertical installations.  I always offer the client a choice of running it out through the gap between the knee-board and keybed, or drilling a hole in the lower-right corner of the soundboard.  I've never had anyone opt for the knee-board route.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=toddpianoworks@yahoo.com href="mailto:toddpianoworks@yahoo.com">Matthew Todd</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 12/4/2004 12:34:38 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Dampp Chaser and Drills</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV>Just a quickie...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When you install the dampp-chaser systems, do y'all just bust out an electric drill in front of the customer and begin?  Does the customer ever question, or get irate, when ya start drilling in their piano??  Or do you not use a drill?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Matthew<BR><BR><B><I>Nichols <nicho@zianet.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Keith,<BR><BR>Ingenuity is often tied to budget. That repair didn't require removal <BR>of the action. A regular damper repair spring might not have, either, but <BR>would have been a booger with the action in place.<BR>I had a reallllly cheap once-every-five-year-kinda customer with a <BR>couple of broken spinet bass damper springs that said she'd just live with <BR>the ringing. I didn't want to justify her cheapness (not poor...... just <BR>cheap) by doing a "freebie", so I stretched a rubber band across from the <BR>neighbors' levers, right at the top of the wood. With the two strands <BR>firmly behind (towards the player) the wire of the sick dampers, they sorta <BR>worked! 30 seconds, more-or-less, and she still wanted a discount due to <BR>the pianos' size.<BR>Takes all kinds. Keeps us in the game, no?<BR><BR>later,<BR>Guy<BR><BR><BR>At 08:22 PM 12/3/2004 -0600, you wrote:<BR>>List,<BR>><BR>>Here is an interesting fix on this Gulbransen spinet.<BR>><BR>>Instead of using this Repair Damper Spring at the damper flange where it <BR>>was designed to go, some person just attached it to the damper stop rail <BR>>instead.<BR>><BR>>The ingenuity of some folks never ceases.<BR>><BR>>Keith<BR>>--<BR>>Keith McGavern<BR>>Registered Piano Technician<BR>>Oklahoma Chapter 731<BR>>Piano Technicians Guild<BR>>USA<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>"Not everything that counts can be counted,<BR>and not everything that can be counted counts."<BR>Albert Einstein<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Matthew Todd<BR>Todd Piano Works<BR>Piano Tuner/Technician<BR>Tuning - Repairing - Regulating <P>__________________________________________________<BR>Do You Yahoo!?<BR>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <BR>http://mail.yahoo.com </FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>