<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I heard someone mention peeling up the cloth on the bearing and slicing the wood at the hole to make a steeper angle--making it more triangular on one side than rounded. Then reattach the cloth.<br><br>Haven't done it myself.<br><br>Barbara Richmond, RPT<br>near Peoria, Illinois<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"David Love" <davidlovepianos@comcast.net><br><b>To: </b>"Jerry Cohen" <emailforjc@yahoo.com>, pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, June 27, 2011 2:15:55 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [pianotech] Touchweight: Re: half punching & figuring FW<br><br><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I can’t think of one. The bearing focusing the fulcrum at the apex of the bearing so shimming the one side of the balance rail doesn’t seem like it will work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">David Love</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">www.davidlovepianos.com</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jerry Cohen<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 27, 2011 11:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org; ptg_touchweightne@egroups.ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Touchweight: Re: half punching & figuring FW</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black;">David,</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black;">On "regular" accelerated actions with the bearings, is there any way to apply the veneer strip to change the key ratio?</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black;"> Thanks,</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black;">Jerry Cohen, RPT</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black;">NJ Chapter</span></p><div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;" align="center"><span style="color: black;"><hr size="1" align="center" width="100%"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><b><span style="color: black;">From:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> David Love <davidlovepianos@comcast.net><br><b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org; ptg_touchweightne@egroups.ptg.org<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 27, 2011 1:53 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Touchweight: Re: half punching & figuring FW</span></p><div id="yiv917150318"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Interesting isn’t it, it’s an “accelerated action” (or so it’s stamped on the action frame) without the bearings. No I didn’t remove them. Key lead positions are consistent with the accelerated actions.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">David Love</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com" target="_blank">www.davidlovepianos.com</a></span><span style="color: black;"></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>