<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=765002315-11092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff = size=2>Indeed, we replace a lot of upright actions completely.  I = also put on dampers first, set them put on hammer butts, travel them with shanks = pressed into the holes.  The shanks are then removed and glued into the hammers.  Then hammers are installed while the action is in the piano.  Then the wippens are installed.  It works best for me.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=765002315-11092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff = size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=765002315-11092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff = size=2>D.L. Bullock</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=765002315-11092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff = size=2><A href="http://www.thepianoworld.com">www.thepianoworld.com</A></FONT></S= PAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Put the worlds greatest = healer to work for WHATEVER health problem you may have----YOUR OWN IMMUNE = SYSTEM.  Your body is capable of healing EVERY disease if you give it the right fuel.  Visit </FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff = size=2><A href="http://www.mannapages.com/dlbullock">http://www.mannapages.com/dl= bullock</A> to learn how to get the right fuel.  Also <A href="http://www.glycoscience.org/">www.glycoscience.org</A></FONT></DI= V></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT = face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Thomas Cole [mailto:tcole@cruzio.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 10, 2004 = 11:35 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Hammer travel experiment<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Julia,<BR><BR>Sounds good. Nothing = wrong with making your job easier. I like to start with installing dampers only = at first, getting the damper heads aligned to the strings and damper felt = installed before putting in the hammers.<BR><BR>Tom Cole<BR><BR><A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:Alpha88x@aol.com">Alpha88x@aol.com</A> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid1a2.2956c1f7.2e731d68@aol.com = type="cite"><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 = family="SANSSERIF" = ptsize="10">Greetings,<BR><BR>      &nbsp= ;            =    I am working on my old upright, whom I call "Becky" she's all apart hammer/butts and sticker type wippens; all out for new leather, = felts etc.(not new hammers, = though)<BR><BR>         &nbs= p;            My experiment is that I am putting the action back in the piano = without it's wippen/stickers and I am going to travel and square the hammers, = FIRST, one, by one, as I put them back in, <I>before </I>the wippen mechanisms = go in. Then I am going to take the action back out and put in the = wippens.<BR><BR>         &nb= sp;      I figure the hammers will be squared and travelled much easier this way,  as opposed to putting everything back on the action  = THEN, having to take certain hammers/butt out, in order to do travel & = squaring and having to work with the wippens' jacks and stuff in the = way. I think its a good idea. Could there be something wrong with this? Is = there something I didn't think of?<BR><BR>Julia Gottchall,<BR>Reading, PA      <BR><BR></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>