<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Sounds like the rod for the soft pedal is not seated properly. That could cause lost motion.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Sspeev@aol.com href="mailto:Sspeev@aol.com">Sspeev@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 19, 2004 11:37 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Noisy Jacks</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Tom, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>thanks for the advice about transporting.  <BR></DIV> <DIV>As far as the jacks go, they click when the key is depressed. As best as i remember, they click almost at the moment the jack toe bumps in the letoff button.   </DIV> <DIV>One other thing that i forgot to mention, and this may be significant:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I had somewhat of a difficult time fitting the action into its supports properly. Everytime i thought i had it in, several of the keys wouldn't go down at all.  But finally when i thought it was locked into place, which is when i began checking notes and hearing clicks.  The other problem now, however, is that there's suddenly a whole lot of lost motion, across the length of the action.  Almost every note has 1/32 or so of a gap between the butt and jack.  So, either i didn't notice this before (this is a friend's never-used piano, by the way), or i didn't quite return the action properly.  Could this have affected the let-off rail forks? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>