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<div>><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Anyone know what size
leather nuts those lifters take?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">>I've got a customer who
asked me to replace a few.</font></div>
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<div>3/8" or 10 mm. There's two per note one on top and one
below</div>
<div>the wippen extension. You'll probably have to remove the
wires</div>
<div>to clean the threads on a wire wheel (carefully).</div>
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<div>My last encounter with one, since the lost motion would have to
be adjusted</div>
<div>in near impossible quarters (each adjusted as each key is
reinstalled),</div>
<div>I changed the capstans from square to a salvaged normal set with
holes and</div>
<div>made a special tool to adjust them which I let attached on the
interior of the piano</div>
<div>with a note on its usage.</div>
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<div>The action isn't hard to remove after you've done it a few
times.</div>
<div>I hate getting good at crap like this...</div>
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Regards,<br>
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Jon Page</div>
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