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removing a hammer rail!??</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>I, as
well, must confess to bending them in the past. Gosh, I feel like such a
Barbarian now. I pledge to mend my ways. Thank goodness for this =
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&gt; From: &quot;D.L. =
Bullock&quot; &gt;<br>
&gt; &nbsp;NEVER bend these L hooks as they love to break.&nbsp; =
Just<br>
&gt; &gt; try to find a new one that matches.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I've bent many of them and none has ever broken =
--
guess I'm lucky.&nbsp; It<br>
&gt; is better advice, as D.L. Bullock says, to loosen the action =
bracket
instead<br>
&gt; of bending the L-hook.&nbsp; That's what I aim to do from now
on.&nbsp;&nbsp; --David<br>
&gt; Nereson, RPT</span></font></p>

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&gt; &gt; David<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>, Terry and =
D.L.</span></font></span></font></p>

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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Put
me on the daring camp, but I find these hangers to be quite malleable =
and have
never had one break.</span></font></p>

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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With
the exception of the Asian pianos where the hangers can be unscrewed, =
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continue with my run of good fortune and bend away.</span></font></p>

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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Do
remove a butt where necessary.</span></font></p>

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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tom
&#8211;Mr. Lucky-- Driscoll</span></font></p>

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