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<div>><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Remove the hammer rest
rail and the hammer spring rail, unhook the bridal tapes and >you
can do this repair with the hammers flipped over the back of the
rail. No need to >remove and re-install the hammers. Ed
Sutton</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Impossible. What a
colossal</font> pain it would be to scrape off the catcher, dig
the</div>
<div>old material out of the slot and scrape off the top edge of the
butt material</div>
<div>with the darned things in place. Talk about slow goin'.
With my luck, a few</div>
<div>flanges would break and many more bushings would be
enlarged.</div>
<div>It seems to me that you would have to also remove the
dampers</div>
<div>for the hammers to fall that way for access to each butt.</div>
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<div>The time it takes to remove and reinstall the hammers is a
fraction of the time</div>
<div>it would take to recover while attached, in the way of each
other.</div>
<div>Plus, with the hammers removed you can expediently file the
hammers.</div>
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<div>Sorry, I'm all for easier ways to do things but that definitely
is not one of them.</div>
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<div>It actually took each butt being held in a vise and a saw blade
to clean the slot.</div>
<div>The Corfam lifted off the top edge and I first went on either
side of the slot</div>
<div>with a blade to cut it free. A few carefully guided strokes of
the saw cleared the</div>
<div>slot to receive the new material. Then with a hacksaw blade held
at an acute</div>
<div>angle, I scraped the residue from the top edge.</div>
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<div>Then I secured the catcher in the vise and had to use a chisel to
get the Corfam</div>
<div>lifting at the bottom edge to get enough to grip and peeled it
off. The hacksaw</div>
<div>blade cleaned/scraped/scored the surface.</div>
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<div>I know that if a project is worth doing, it's worth doing
twice.</div>
<div>I pulled out all the stops to make sure this is a one-shot
deal.</div>
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Regards,<br>
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Jon Page</div>
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