<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Hazen,,, There are = just so many tricks when it comes to the trade. I don't know of any that will help = you out here. On the other hand,,, it's really not that hard, or such a long = task, to replace the dampers. Why not give the customer the bad news that they = need new ones? After all, they've done their job for years. Hey, things wear out, = what can I say?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=HazenBannister@cs.com href="mailto:HazenBannister@cs.com">HazenBannister@cs.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 06, 2002 = 6:59 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> hard dampers</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>Hi list, = <BR> I tuned a piano this week with hard,crusty dampers,making a terrible = sound when seating back on the string.I have sandpapered them before,sometimes = opening a can of worms.What is  a good fix for this,I remember someone = wrote once about squeezing with pliers. <BR>Thanks, <BR>Hazen Bannister</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>