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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That sounds good Joe. Thanks. =
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now for a question aimed directly at =
the job time
estimator king himself: How many hours would you plan on such a job - =
including
regulating lost motion?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=joegarrett@earthlink.net =
href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">Joe
Garrett</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 24, =
2004 9:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Rubber Nuts =
Replacement on a
spinet</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry asked: "<FONT face="Times New =
Roman"
size=3>Looked at a 1962 Wurly spinet today with the rubber nuts on =
the key
=<BR>ends. Of course, the rubber was hard and brittle. However, in =
this case,
=<BR>the rubber seemed to also be fused to both the metal fork thing =
on the
=<BR>key end as well as the threaded rod that goes to the wippen. =
I've
=<BR>replaced sets of rubber nuts before, but only when they came =
off
=<BR>reasonably easy. This appears to me to have the potential to be =
a time
=<BR>consuming nightmare of a job where each fork and each threaded =
rod would
=<BR>require quite a bit of tedious cleaning of hard rubber before =
installing
=<BR>and adjusting the new nuts.<BR><BR>Anyone with experience with =
this
situation have any advice? Thanks."<BR><BR>Terry,</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>It's been a few years, but I think how I did it was: Use a soft, =
small
wire brush wheel on the key forks, to get the "rubber" crud off. =
Of
course this means having the keys out of the piano.</DIV>
<DIV>For the threaded rods, I used a Nut Driver/cordless, (slow speed =
one),
drill, to remove the olde ones. Then I ran a Die down the wires =
of each
one to clean the crud off. (I don't remember what the thread was!) =
Once that
was done, if I recall, I put some VJ lube on each of the wires and =
spun the
new "nuts" on with the Nut Driver and cordless drill. I hope that =
helps,
some.<G></DIV>
<DIV>Best Regards, </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool
Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>