<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Just as a matter of interest Duaine, if you were recovering the bellows on a player, where do you do it?<div>If you remove the upper /lower assembly to your house.</div><div>We all, or a lot of us, just used an old table in a corner of the house, when starting out.</div><div>Do the same here, remove the action, replace the hammers, and return to the customer's house and travel them.</div><div>You can either make a template of the string indentations for matching, or do it every second hammer method.</div><div>John Ross,</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia.<br><div><div>On 20-03-2012, at 8:08 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 03/20/2012 02:15 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Duaine said: "So, since I don't have a real shop - just my basement - and I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">need to replace hammers on an upright piano .......<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">At a customers' home, I'm supposed to drag, setup and use a hide glue pot<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to hang the hammers .....<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I don't think so.... just sayin'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">FWIW, I've started to use fish glue."<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Duaine,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The answer to the first thang is an unequivical: YES!! However, imo, you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">shouldn't be putting a new set of hammers on," AT" a client's house! How<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">totally OLDE SCHOOL...as in get it together and make a space available that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is specific to quality action work. Even my 1st year students have such a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">space. It's part of being a real Technician! Sheesh!<br></blockquote><br><br>It is called "getting it right" - I put on the new hammers - with - the action in the piano - so that each hammer is lined up and hitting the strings right - as well as - being correctly spaced and turned to the right angle !<br><br>Your way - means bringing the whole piano to my house - right ?<br><br>Duaine<br><br>-- <br>Duaine Hechler<br>Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ<br>Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding<br>Reed Organ Society Member<br>Florissant, MO 63034<br>(314) 838-5587<br><a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</a><br>www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com<br>--<br>Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>