<!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 5.50.4919.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>I would also check the back rail felt, if too thick = that will have made the front of the key too low. Otherwise certainly not so many = thin tissue type paper washers as that also produces unnecessary compression. = I've had in the past to replace a thick card in place of lots of = these.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR>Brian</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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=Wimblees@aol.com = href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com">Wimblees@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> ; <A = title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 24, = 2002 4:31 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> thick or thin</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 = face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">I am in the process of re-regualting a S&S M, = where one of the main problems was that the keys were too low, (they were almost = touching the front rail when depressed). I raised them all with = cardboard and paper punchings. <BR><BR>As I was doing this, I got thinking about = this question. Are there any rules of thumb, or what is the general = consensus, as to what thickness the wool balance rail punching should be? Should we = have thick punchings with fewer paper/cardboard punchings, or thin = punchings with lots of paper/cardboard? I guess I could ask the same for the front = rail. Do we use thick felts and fewer cardboard, or the other way around? Or = does it make any difference?<BR><BR>Wim = </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>