<!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 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: " bgColor=#ffffff> <BLOCKQUOTE id=0><LABEL id=HbSession = SessionId="2622135012"></LABEL> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Terry,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good approach. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also you should talk to "Jack" and = let him tell you what he needs! "He can be a big help too in setting the unknown measurments.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A = href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI= V> <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=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</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, April 11, 2004 = 12:06 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Rough = Regulation</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To those not out on Easter Egg hunts:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I replaced action brackets on a = Young Chang small grand action. As expected, the regulation was way, way out of = whack. I have no string height measurements. I wish to rough-regulate that = action so that I don't have to do three days of regulating when I bring it = back to the piano (which is 50 miles away).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm guessing at string height by = setting my let-off rack at the height where the hammer meets it and the shank = is horizontal. I know that might not be exact, but it should be pretty = close. Then I am roughing in key height/level (65 mm - spec is 64.5 mm), = dip (10.2 mm), blow distance (47 mm) from manufacturers specs. The 10.2 mm dip = gives me 1/16" let-off and 0.025" after-touch (don't you like how I mix = metric, english fractions and decimals together?). So that seems real nice. = I also suggests I've got the action spread correct (113.5 = mm). But what seems odd is the hammers at rest sit low. I've got the hammer rest = rail plastered against the wippen flanges and the shanks just barely = clear the rest rail felt. Also, to get the 10.2 mm dip, I have to = remove all the punchings under the front rail felt. My guess is the ample = punchings that were there were original - and presumably the action worked. = Just seems like something is not quite right, and I'm not comfortable with such = a divergence from what seemed to work originally. Am I perhaps giving = the original manufacture of this piano (about 1990) too much credit - or = am I missing something?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any = thoughts.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P></P></BODY></HTML>