<!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 6.00.2800.1555" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Hi Terry,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Sounds like a great opportunity to bring some pleasure back to playing for someone.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>I think I'd probably replace the rail.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>With your set-up, (and since you suggest that the wood around the pins may be less than solid (contaminated?)) it's probably just as easy, if not easier, to duplicate the front rail, no?  Make a paper pattern of the hole locations once the pins are pulled and transfer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>If it were only a few pins, I might plug and redrill, but if it's most of the front rail, you'd be pulling all the pins, place a straightedge to fit and scribe a good line from one end to the other of the front rail on the centers of the holes (are the holes in line, just bent, or are the holes not evenly drilled?).  Filling with </FONT><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Lake One (or the repair resin of your choice) redrilling, and installing new pins.  I honestly think it'd be less work to duplicate the rail.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>My 10 cent PR,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>William R. Monroe</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr 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=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</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> Friday, July 21, 2006 11:18 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Erratic Keypins</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm working on a grand action where the keypins appear new/recent and are at all sorts of angles - many leaning forward and actually catching the key mortise edge. 40% of them you can wiggle quite a bit with your finger (like 1 mm movement at the top easily). Wood around pins feels almost spongy - like someone treated the darn thing with the pinblock dope of yesteryear (but no stains - don't really think anyone did that). Most pins pull out quite easily.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>