<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Matthew Todd <<a href="mailto:toddpianoworks@att.net">toddpianoworks@att.net</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Does anyone know where to get some hardware for the Quiet Keys System you commonly find on Yamaha U-1's?  I am just talking about the wingnut that goes on the bass side, and the two little screws that go on the treble side, that are used to connect the actual muffler bar.<br> <br><br>Thank you,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Matthew<br></font></blockquote></div> <div><br> </div> <div>Hi Mathew, </div> <div> </div> <div>Necessity is the mother of invention, somebody famous once said! </div> <div> </div> <div>For a fairly simple repair such as you mention a little re-engineering in the form of new hardware eg. screws, bolts, wingnuts that all fit one another and cost most probably 1 or 2 dollars collectively. It would save you those extra trips to the hardware store, the time waiting for Yamaha to send it to you and up your how-to for the next one! </div> <div> </div> <div>This is what I try to point out to and teach the newbies in our chapter, it's not always necessary to re-invent the wheel, just observe how it works or is supposed to work then formulate a plan to fix it. While you are performing that plan, we'll call it plan A, formulate plan B just in case plan A doesn't work as well as you thought it would. If you have to use plan B you are ready for it and as you are performing it formulate plan C, etc. etc. I personally have reached plan F on a few occasions.</div> <div> </div> <div>My point is it can save you that trip back, make you look like a hero, to your customer and not leave that bitter taste of frustration with you.</div> <div> </div> <div>By all means listen to Tom and the others and go hang around a good old-fashioned hardware store and learn about screws, phillips, torx, slotted, squaredrive, whether they are roundhead, ovalhead or flathead and the difference between them and a bolt or machine screw, sheetmetal screw or woodscrew.</div> <div><grin></div> <div> </div> <div>Mike <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. <br>Vince Lombardi<br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br> email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>