<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I know... I love this one...  And those undedimensioned lift flanges. Center pins keep working their way out, or the flanges themselves get broken.. then you gotta take the whole set of dampers off just to get at the tray. Not their brightest moment. RicB "Rob G." wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> Hello, Is there a trick of some kind to tighten Yamaha damper tray flange screws without taking all of the dampers out?  For whatever reason some stoned engineer put the flange screw behind the flange itself.  I had an older C-7 in a recording studio this morning that I had to prepare for a 12:00 session with "Air Supply", (those who grew up in the 70's will certainly remember them).  There was a rattle in the tray and after a while of fiddling I came to the conclusion that the center damper tray flange screw was loose.  After 30 minutes with the aid of a long and narrow screwdriver standing on my head with a 60 watt light bulb in my face I was finally able to partly force it in from the side and tighten but the whole experience was ridiculous.  My assessment was correct however and the rattle did stop.  Am I missing something here or is there actually a practical way to do this? Rob Goodale, RPTLas Vegas, NV</blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>   </body> </html>