<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Barbara Richmond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:piano57@comcast.net">piano57@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Gosh, John, thanks for the detail.
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You bet. Hopefully, it might even be accurate. :-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">So, do you have little marked bottles of
solution all lined up in a row?</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> I usually just go for repinning because I know what my results are
going to be and I have a pretty good idea of how long it will take. But it
would make sense, I guess, to give the water/alcohol sizing another try. I
haven't worked on many pianos where sizing was an option.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I usually have repinned also, but my experience prior to this was mostly field repairs where there wasn't time for drying. I had time to experiment on this action to find what solution strength worked best. And when sizing works, it's much faster.</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The key bushings I checked seemed OK,</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>These seemed OK at first. Not too much cupping, I thought. But then after action friction was corrected, and there were still problems, it had to be keysticks. Thankfully, with the time savings from the sizing (vs. repinning), I was able to bush the FR for the same price I'd promised.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And, about the balance pin holes ... they were fine. I checked them before I bid on the job, and also during the regulation (just to make double sure). :-)</div></div><br>-- <br>JF<br>
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