<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Now dang it, I don't understand this at all ...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Just when I think I've got ol' Joe pegged--even making fun of his upbringing--he makes this post with not one, not two, but three absolutely great little tips/tricks!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Maybe that one brain cell IS still active, ya never know. But this much I know: Some of this stuff will find it's way into our chapter newsletter, 'cause I publish the thing and I like it what you wrote.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Now, Joe, one little thing I didn't quite get. This bend in the wire: Is it moving the lead closer to or farther from the front of the piano?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>And by the way, Joe and all, please never, ever take offense at anything little old me ever says in my silly little old posts <FONT size=1>(even if it is all true)</FONT>.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Alan Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Salem, Missouri</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=joegarrett@earthlink.net href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">Joe Garrett</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 09/07/2005 8:37:24 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Miscellany/Yamaha Cord Flanges</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Y'all    </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just finished replacing a set of Yamaha Upright Cord Flanges. Several things you might be interested in. First, the set of flanges from Yamaha were very consistant in regards to pinning/bushings.<S> One thing I did notice on the flanges was that the new cord material "wicks" the glue and will have a little bit of stiff cord off the end of the flange. This "stiff" cord will rub against the birdseys fly cut if you don't mash it down a bit. Could've been a problem later, if I hadn't noticed it! <G> Also, a trick about Aluminum rails was learned on this one: When extracting the screw with the cordless screwdriver spin the screw a couple of extra revolutions and the self tapping screw that they use will make a "countersink" that makes finding the thread a real breeze! The first couple of screws, I really struggled with until I discovered this thingee! Yahoo!<G></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Enclosed is a "Jack Depressor" that a good friend, Orville Milburn, (Of Milburn Guitars), invented. It's made of a piece of very thin welding rod, (brass/?), two fishing weights, (flattened around the wire) and a small piece of player tubing. As it's difficult to get it to stand up on it's side, on the scanner, I'll just tell you it has a bend about an inch below the hook to make the "weight(s)" pull down on the Jack Tongue in a straight line. cheap and easy to make. Although I consider it too bulky for tool kits, I use it, exclusively in the shop, as it works soooo much better than the little spring thingee that most, (including me), have.<G></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>