I've only <font face="Arial">replaced hammer butt springs</font> once, on a lowly Lowrey console... it took me just under four hours. Being new at a lot of this stuff, I wondered what the heck I'd done wrong, but we'd just had a chapter technical on it, so I was pretty certain I was OK. <br><br>Funny (?) thing was about a week later the teacher I did it for told me that students were still complaining about repetition on a couple notes... turned out to be some simple regulation adj (forget what, but not springs). I sold the job based on about 25-30 broken springs, she bought it based on students not being able to play... couldn't be anything to do with the REST of the piano... (same teacher OK'd a student's mom buying a spinet for $100... when I went to tune it I found about a dozen hammers with no felt... did I mention it was a spinet too? for $100?) <br><br>As I typed the previous, I was thinking about all the discussion here about "good enough for a kid to learn on." I decided that's like a math teacher saying that "2+2=about 4.024", or a woodshop instructor patting the white pine chair (dripping sap) and saying "This is white oak." <br><br>Paul Bruesch<br>Stillwater, MN<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Farrell</b> <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial">It's been a couple years since I've replaced all the hammer butt springs on a vertical. I need to give a guy an estimate. I looked in Joe Garrett's labor guide and it says four hours. Seems to me it took me a lot longer than that - but maybe I'm slow - and besides, my memory ain't what it used to be (I think). Any opinions on labor time once the action is in my shop?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Thanks.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Terry Farrell<br>Farrell Piano</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.farrellpiano.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.farrellpiano.com</a><br><a href="mailto:terry@farrellpiano.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> terry@farrellpiano.com</a></font></div></div> </blockquote></div><br>