<!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 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; = FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 = rightMargin=7> <DIV><FONT size=3>Hi everyone,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>I have a future customer who has a piano with a = hammer, get this, that's split.  He has the other, top half.  Rather than = order 88 hammers which I was told would have to be done because I cannot just = order one, I was given another idea.  I was told that there is a sleeve that = can be placed on the hammer shank that is still attached to the action and then = the top half is inserted in.  Does anyone know if this is a hard procedure = as I'm just getting into the repair side of piano tech?  Where can I buy = such a sleeve?  Thanks again, and if this is one of those, obvious things = as CY mentioned to me yesterday, I appologize.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Marshall</FONT></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=Piannaman@aol.com href="mailto:Piannaman@aol.com">Piannaman@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> Thursday, February 23, = 2006 11:09 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> yet another bracket question...</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 = size=2> <DIV>Just wondering:  are all of the faulty Young Chang action = brackets greenish in color (because of the Zinc content, I would assume)?  = I tuned one today that a friend owns, and the brackets have not = expanded.  They are gold in color.  I didn't locate the serial number before = leaving, so I'm not sure what year it was made.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Every time I go to work on a YC now, I get nervous....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 PTSIZE="10" = FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Dave Stahl<BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>650-224-3560<U><BR><A = href="http://www.dstahlpiano.net/">http://dstahlpiano.net/</A></U></FON= T></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>