<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Brian Doepke <<a href="mailto:bdoepke@verizon.net">bdoepke@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> <p>The piano is a Cable drop-action with several hammer felt separations from the bottom of the hammer, the top is still attached (for the moment).</p> <p>Is it possible to glue/clamp the felt while still in the piano?  I would hate to have to pull the action…all those lifter wires to take off and put back in the slots.</p></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Possibly.  I do these repairs in consoles without action removal.  I can't recall having done this in a spinet, but it would probably work similarly.  I have some really cheap plastic clamps that I think came from Wal-Mart.  They lock into place as they are being clamped.  Use thick CA glue with accelerator.</div> <div><br></div><div>Apply CA.  Clamp.  Spray accelerator (or use a Q-tip).  Or, apply CA to the molding and accelerator to the felt.  Then quickly clamp as the accelerator does its thing. Wait a minute or two and move to the next one.  Or if you have several clamps, move to the next one right then. </div> <div><br></div><div>If possible, you could remove the individual hammers and work on them out of the action.</div><div>  </div><div>I think Terry Farrell has mentioned using CA glue and fingers as the clamps.  You might check the archives, or maybe Terry will chime in again.</div> </div><br>-- <br>JF