<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:11 PM, John Voigt <<a href="mailto:jvoigt@gwtc.net">jvoigt@gwtc.net</a>> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Questions:  Is there a fix for the hammers other than filing the hammers and<br> replacing the shanks?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you slightly enlarge the hammer butt flange hole to shift the hammer over a bit more?</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br> Has anyone else ever experinced a situation with the plate being so close to<br> the strings? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.  There are some old Chickerings that are impossible to keep a strip mute in.  Is it the 67BB?  Anyway, if you're using an ETD, just tune unisons as you go.  If you're tuning aurally ... well, it's a good time to practice tuning the unisons as you go.  :-)</div> <div> </div></div>-- <br>JF