<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Wim, We get a lot of these down here.  I can't believe you haven't had that one before. I guess it's our lovely humidity.  You'll have a lot of traveling to do when your put that turkey back together.  Hope you bid enough. :-) Warren Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>A blind tuner called me to help him repair, what he thought, was a broken damper lifter rod bracket. (just what we've been talking about). When I inspected the action, however, it wasn't the damper lifter rod that was the problem. The symptoms were almost the same, in that when you push on the pedal, the dampers wouldn't move. Since he couldn't see, he assumed it was the lifter rod. This is a Pratt Read console, with plastic damper flanges. (they are OK). The problem was a split in the action rail. The action rail holds the hammer and wippens flanges, as well as the dampers and the damper lifter rod. I had always assumed it was a sold piece of wood. But apparently, it is two pieces of wood glued together. And what happened was that the glue dried out. As a result, the action rail split, length wise, from the treble to about a foot from the bass. The repair was easy. I removed all the dampers and the lifter rod, as well as 4 pairs of wippens. I put the action in a cradle, and with the action laying flat, (so that the groove for the lifter rod faced up), I poured super glue in the split, clamped it and kicked it. After a few minutes, I took off the clamps, and reinstalled the parts. Problem solved Wim</blockquote> -- Warren Fisher RPT fish@Communique.net 1422 Briarwood Dr. Slidell, LA 70458-3102  </html>