<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=798065707-22112006><FONT face=Arial>Had a similar problem on a new Kawai or Young Chang or something.  The wing nut would not take out any lost motion in the pedal.  It wouldn't pull the pedal prop up through the metal pedal lever, and when I loosened the wing nut, it spun up the pedal prop, leaving a gap between it and the top of the pedal lever.  Tried to pull the prop through the lever, or push it down, and it wouldn't go either way.  It was threaded into the flattened end of the tubular pedal lever and the only way to adjust the pedal was to turn the prop with a vise grips.  I thought, "This can't be right.  Why would they thread the prop into the lever?  Then what would be the purpose of the wing nut?  Why are they re-inventing the wheel?"  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=798065707-22112006><FONT face=Arial>    Well, it turned out the hole for the pedal prop was just a bit small, and it only appeared to have the prop threaded into it.  Didn't have a drill with me, so I reamed the hole a bit larger with a rat-tail file, and presto, everything back to normal!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=798065707-22112006><FONT face=Arial>    --David Nereson, RPT    </FONT></SPAN></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> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>piannaman@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:59 AM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Ya gotta laugh...<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Yesterday, I did a warranty tuning on a Yamaha P-2.  The piano was in great shape, at pitch, everything in place, no broken spring cords.  I went to adjust the pedal and found that the wing not wouldn't go far enough down the pedal bolt to take out the excess play.  Inspection showed that someone had wanted to "secure" their fine pedal adjustment by wrapping many layers of masking tape around the threads.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I removed the wing nut, pulled the bolt down and scraped off as much tape as I could.  I couldn't find the felt punching that had rolled away when I undid the nut, so I replaced it with a spare Wurzen punching I had in my kit.  Put it all back together, and found that I couldn't adjust the pedal so that I was getting enough lift OR adequate damper seating.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Everything seemed in perfect order.  I removed the action to look for loose pedal rod brackets.  Nada.  Futzed around with adjustment.  Still nada.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After about ten minutes of exasperation, I ran a screwdriver through the pedal mortise over the top of the pedal.  Out popped the missing punching, which had been pressing down on the pedal the whole time!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mondays have been an adventure lately.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl<BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>650-224-3560<BR>dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<BR>http://dstahlpiano.net/<BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV> <DIV class=AOLPromoFooter> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> <A href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaol%2Ecom%2Fnewaol" target=_blank><B>Check out the new AOL</B></A>. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>