<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5296.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Hi Marshal,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>If you don't have the tools yet, and the shank is not broken at the end, then you can do a repair using a straw.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>*Replacing with a new shank is the proper repair.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>But using a length of straw, you place it on the butt section, then put glue on the end with the hammer, now the straw will act as a guide as you put the hammer end of the shank in it and push together. When the glue dries you could slice off the straw.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pianotune05@comcast.net href="mailto:pianotune05@comcast.net">pianotune05</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 24, 2006 12:26 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> a hammer question</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Hi everyone,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>I have a future customer who has a piano with a hammer, get this, that's split.  He has the other, top half.  Rather than order 88 hammers which I was told would have to be done because I cannot just order one, I was given another idea.  I was told that there is a sleeve that can be placed on the hammer shank that is still attached to the action and then the top half is inserted in.  Does anyone know if this is a hard procedure as I'm just getting into the repair side of piano tech?  Where can I buy such a sleeve?  Thanks again, and if this is one of those, obvious things as CY mentioned to me yesterday, I appologize.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Marshall</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Piannaman@aol.com href="mailto:Piannaman@aol.com">Piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:09 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> yet another bracket question...</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Just wondering:  are all of the faulty Young Chang action brackets greenish in color (because of the Zinc content, I would assume)?  I tuned one today that a friend owns, and the brackets have not expanded.  They are gold in color.  I didn't locate the serial number before leaving, so I'm not sure what year it was made.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Every time I go to work on a YC now, I get nervous....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Dave Stahl<BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>650-224-3560<U><BR><A href="http://www.dstahlpiano.net/">http://dstahlpiano.net/</A></U></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>