<html><head><base href="x-msg://7/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I checked damper springs - seem Goldilocks fine - not too stiff and not too weak. Unless I get any other bright ideas, I think I'm gonna recommend to the owner that if they want me to look into it I will try one or two sample keys and chip off the hard rubber nut, inspect the balance holes and install a new rubber nut. We'll see if either/both of those items are causing the problem. And of course, when I have the drop sticker disengaged from the key, then I can much more closely check the rest of the action items.<div><br></div><div>Thanks Barbara, Jon, Phil & Dean.<br><div><br></div><div>I really wonder if it couldn't be the balance holes. That's the exact feeling it has - something binding in there. It feels exactly like several keys on a little spinet I tuned a few weeks ago - and of course, being that it was just a few keys, I knew something had to have fallen down in there - took quite a bit of looking but finally found the Bic pen right up against the backside of the let-off button rail - really quite well hidden from view. Unfortunately, I've never seen a four-foot-long pen though........</div><div><br></div><div>Peek-a-boo!</div><div><br></div><div><img id="637e151f-561b-438c-bc33-7b55533bbea1" height="640" width="480" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9E7D1B74-2584-4E33-8A58-BA4435D8F696"></div><div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What Jon said. And check the damper springs, too.</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Barbara Richmond, RPT</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">near Peoria, Illinois<br><br></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><hr id="zwchr"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Jon Page" <<a href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net">jonpage@comcast.net</a>><br><b>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br><b>Sent:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, December 5, 2012 6:04:46 PM<br><b>Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [pianotech] Kimball Spinet with HEAVY Sponge Action<br><br>Look to see if the balance holes are too high. It can really restrict<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>the pivoting motion.<br><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Regards,<br><br>Jon Page<br><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>