<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> <DIV>Okay, while we're at it (sorta thinking, sorta), what if the toupee was first glued to a thin slat of wood, like upright dampers, then glued to the squared off hammer .... something else to be tried anyway, if more oompf is required. Or you can soak the whole assembly in "Liquid Oompf" (Available from me at $57 an ounce -- it just looks and smells like lacquer, honest (?).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>While writing this last paragraph, I had the weirdest thought (hence the subject line change) ....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Has anyone ever tried a little of our super-thin CA as a hammer hardening agent? It might work wonders (or not) but it would be irreversible ... big drawback.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Okay, that wasn't the absolute weirdest thought I ever had, but at least this one didn't involve strawberry Jello, Saran Wrap, live fish, bubble gum, moose antlers, weasel bladders, schizophrenic chickens, and Swedish lady wrestlers. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</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">Joseph 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> 11/07/2005 5:15:09 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Hammer Rebuilding - In a pinch</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <P> <DIV>Terry "the Farrell" said: " <DIV><FONT size=+0>It looks like it will work. Don't know what it will sound like. Gotta be =</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>better than wood.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>Anyway, FWIW. Silly ideas from silly techs.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>Terry,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Quite ingenious!!! If the sound is not up to a reasonable thing, then, perhaps, stretch/cover them puppies with thin buckskin.<G> It worked o.k. on Squares!<G> I'd like to know about the sound. Keep us posted.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Regards,</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon)</DIV> <DIV>Captain, Tool Police</DIV> <DIV>Squares R I</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>