<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>RE: Tugging on hammer rail to chek lost motion</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"/> <meta charset="US-ASCII" http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"/> </head> <body style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: #ffffff"> <div align="left"><font style="font: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; color: black">Sure it is. If those hammers don't wink, they are sitting on top of the jack and you can't count on enough clearance to for the jack to reset.<br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: KeyKat88@aol.com<br/>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br/>Received: 2/6/2008 7:24:02 AM<br/>Subject: Tugging on hammer rail to chek lost motion<br/><br/> <div align="left">Greeetings,</div> <div> </div> <div>              Working on an upright, I always globally check out lack of lost motion by tugging on the hammer rest rail, however, I came across this piano where there are braces on the back (or towards front) of the rail and I cant check it this way. Now I wonder if this shortcut is a viable one. </div> <div> </div> <div>Julia </div> <div>Reading, PA</div><br/><br/><br/> <div><font style="font: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; color: black"> <hr style="margin-top: 10px"/>Who's never won? <a title="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" href="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" target="_blank">Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music.</a></font> </div> </div><a title="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" href="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" target="_blank"> </a></font> </div> </body> </html>