<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Julia, Sounds good. Nothing wrong with making your job easier. I like to start with installing dampers only at first, getting the damper heads aligned to the strings and damper felt installed before putting in the hammers. Tom Cole <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Alpha88x@aol.com">Alpha88x@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid1a2.2956c1f7.2e731d68@aol.com">Greetings,                       I am working on my old upright, whom I call "Becky" she's all apart hammer/butts and sticker type wippens; all out for new leather, felts etc.(not new hammers, though)                       My experiment is that I am putting the action back in the piano without it's wippen/stickers and I am going to travel and square the hammers, FIRST, one, by one, as I put them back in, before the wippen mechanisms go in. Then I am going to take the action back out and put in the wippens.                 I figure the hammers will be squared and travelled much easier this way,  as opposed to putting everything back on the action  THEN, having to take certain hammers/butt out, in order to do travel & squaring and having to work with the wippens' jacks and stuff in the way. I think its a good idea. Could there be something wrong with this? Is there something I didn't think of? Julia Gottchall, Reading, PA      </blockquote> </body> </html>