<div>Dave,</div> <div> </div> <div>This was discussed either this month or last, so you might look in those months.</div> <div> </div> <div>I had the same situation a couple years ago and asked Phil Glenn in an email. I forget the exact year when the bracket problem was corrected, but I think it was either 1989 or 1991. I could be way wrong - why don't you call them? Use the Resources page on <A href="http://www.ptg.org">www.ptg.org</A> to get the phone number.</div> <div> </div> <div>Have you checked to see whether the knuckles are flattened? Checked other things besides letoff? Blow distance, key dip, hammer wear, etc.?</div> <div> </div> <div>I'm currently having trouble with YC getting some bass strings for a PE-121 vertical. I'm talking with people and leaving them information. They are saying they will check on it, but are not calling me back. Dunno if others are having troubles with them now.</div> <div> </div> <div>John Formsma<BR><BR></div> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><BR>-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Growing Brackets<BR>From: "Dave Bunch" <pdtek@mchsi.com><BR>Date: Tue, March 14, 2006 5:21 pm<BR>To: <pianotech@ptg.org><BR><BR> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV>Hello all-</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I know this subject has been discussed before, however, my first question is- Did the archives change? I see no search field like there used to be. So before I dive into that one month at a time, I will ask here. Maybe there is also some new info around.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have a customer with a Young Chang grand G175BMP ser# 107514 that has what I strongly believe are the infamous growing action brackets. I remember them being discussed and the symptoms seem to fit. Most of the problem is that the hammers are blubbering and blocking because there is no escapement. Over the last couple of years the jack buttons are to the end of the screw, and the rate that this thing goes out of regulation unbelievable, leaving me to believe that the brackets are the problem.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The dealer tells me the piano was manufactured in '97 which seems too recent to be in the group that had these brackets, or am I mistaken?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Who is it that one calls these days to get replacements, and does YC still pay for the procedure?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV> <DIV>Dave Bunch</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <HR> _______________________________________________<BR>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives </BLOCKQUOTE>