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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Did the brackets also expand - I presume they did - you
didn't say?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I don't often go out on a limb like I will here, and I'm
not trying to launch an attack on anyone, but it seems to me using an
unsure jack-to-knuckle relationship on two notes to be a somewhat
perfunctory approach to setting action spread. Again, I don't mean to pick on
you Wim, but many folks with much less experience that you and me read
these posts and might think that the method described below is at least as good
as properly measuring the distance between action centers. If this method worked
well in this case, so be it - but IMHO I think maybe you got lucky. I should
think it very easy to be off several millimeters - or more. I mean how much
longer would it take to grab a caliper and measure to be sure? Seems to me about
zero longer and no more difficult.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Now, on a more positive note - Wim, how did you do that
small picture thing - where you post a small picture and have a link to a
full-size picture. That is wonderful! How did you do that?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sincerely,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN></SPAN></DIV>These came from a 25 year old YC. The customer
complained the keys wouldn't work. I thought it was corroded keyleads. But
then when the hammers wouldn't check, I figured it was the typical growing
bracket problem. When I got the action on my bench, and took off the end
brackets, they fell apart. <BR><BR>When I put the new ones back on, I had to
adjust the wippen rail to get the action spread right. Instead of measuring, I
just made sure the back of the jacks on 1 and 88 lined up with the knuckle
core. Regulation was a breeze. <BR><BR>
<DIV style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees,
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