<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Just when you think you've seen everything...</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">This morning I finished up the regulation of a 38 year old Baldwin L.  While attempting to regulate the damper upstop rail, I found that it wouldn't move.  I thought perhaps it was stuck with varnish.  But no, a bright light revealed that some previous tuner must tired of regulating it, and actually had driven 5 small nails into it to hold it into place!  Fortunately he didn't hammer the headless nails all the way in, and I was able to get them out with little visegrips.  FWIW.  I hope no one else runs into similar stupidity, but thought someone might profit from knowing this experience.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Ray,</div> <div><br></div> <div>That's actually standard procedure from the factory.  The heads are left sticking up so that you can pull them out to move the rail.</div> <div><br></div> <div>chris</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000"><b>Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.<x-tab>     </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab></b></font></div> <div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">School of Music, Ohio University<x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab></font></div> <div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">Athens, Ohio  45701<x-tab>     </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab></font></div> <div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000"><b>(740) 593-1656</b></font></div> <div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">fax (740) 593-1429</font></div> <div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">purdy@ohiou.edu</font></div> </body> </html>