<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1555" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Wim,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Use to bend the hanger too but stopped when I almost dropped an action carying it by the rest rail.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Someone else had bent the hanger to remove the rail and had not been able to get the bracket tight enough.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It helps to have action props that can hold by the center and one end bracket. Other wise things can get rather interesting. <G></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss RPT<BR>Mother Goose Tools<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=wimblees@aol.com href="mailto:wimblees@aol.com">Willem Blees</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:Pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:35 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> removing hammer rest rail</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><WBR>To remove the hammer rest rail I always removed three of four hammers where I had to bend the rail hanger that needed to be out of the way to slide the thing out. Yesterday, when I was putting the rail back on, I had a hell of a time bending the hanger back. Then it occurred to me that if I remove the action bracket, I would have more room to bend the hanger. But then it occurred to me that if I would have just removed the action bracket in the first place, I wouldn't need to bend the hanger at all. <BR><BR>Is this is a Duh on my part, and everyone else has been doing it this way all along, or have I just come up something new?<BR><BR> <DIV style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<BR>Piano Tuner/Technician<BR>Honolulu, HI<BR>808-349-2943<BR>www.bleespiano.com<BR>Author of <BR>The Business of Piano Tuning<BR>available from Potter Press<BR>www.pianotuning.com</DIV> <DIV class=aol_ad_footer id=u8CAD9E1CC31A67B-958-75E9><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> <A title=http://mapquest.com/toolbar?ncid=mpqmap00050000000010 href="http://mapquest.com/toolbar?ncid=mpqmap00050000000010" target=_blank>Get the MapQuest Toolbar</A>. Directions, Traffic, Gas Prices & More!</FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>