<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Dear List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Just a quick tip that might save someone a lot of = grief.  I recently was called to repair a Baldwin M that had a sluggish, = sometimes sticking key.  The previous tuner had made three trips back and was = unable to solve the problem.  I discovered that the knuckle was catching = on the neighboring one.  Someone had tried to get a little more life out = of the knuckles by putting some string inside the knuckle under the flattened area.  It hadn't been trimmed completely.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I also am finishing a new hammer, shank, and flange replacement on another Baldwin and found a few rubbing knuckles that had = to be repaired on this one, too. A piece of folded fine sandpaper passed = between them took care of it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>FWIW.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Ray T. Bentley, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Alton, IL</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><A href="mailto:Ray@Bentley.net">Ray@Bentley.net</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></= HTML>