<html><head><base href="x-msg://30/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Wim, My own experience on Kimball verticals of the 70's was this. The spoons had some green abrasive stuff on the spoons. They came from the factory this way. It wasn't corrosion but it looked sprayed on. The abrasion wore a hole in the damper lever felt. And then some of the spoons kept getting caught in their own hole.<div><br></div><div>I suggest that something like this also happened in the Wurlitzer. When you took out the lost motion, the spoon hit the damper lever a little sooner and thus went as little deeper into the hole, thereby exacerbating the issue. What would have happened on its own in a few years was accelerated into happening now. It was not something caused by you, but exposed by you. <br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 9, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Joe Goss wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi Wim,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">My best guess would be that adjusting the lost motion.removed the necessary bounce to let the action function as it and the customer were accustom to.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Adjusting the soft pedal to where it is slightly engaged would quickly return some lost motion. I know that is not kosher, but you know your customer</font></div><div>Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT<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="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="tnrwim@aol.com" href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="ptg_pianotechne@egroups.ptg.org" href="mailto:ptg_pianotechne@egroups.ptg.org">ptg_pianotechne@egroups.ptg.org</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, September 09, 2011 6:16 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[pianotech] sticking Wrully keys</div><div><br></div><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><div>50 year old Wurly spinet, the cheap one without a fall board. Tuned it a couple of weeks ago, adjusted lost motion and plugged in the DC. A couple of days ago the customer complained about keys sticking, especially in the middle. I Inspected the piano this morning, and determined what was causing them to stick were the spoons are hanging up on the damper lever felts.</div><div> </div><div>The question the customer posed, and I want to know, is this. Since the keys were not sticking before I plugged in the DC, is there a correlation with the heat of the DC and the spoons sticking on the damper lever felts?</div><div> </div><div>Wim<br><br></div><div style="clear: both; "></div></font></blockquote></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>