<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> LEDs are the way to go. They last forever and you can drop the flashlight without killing the bulb.  You'll gasp at the prices they want for some of them. But go to: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tek-tite.com/home/index.php">http://www.tek-tite.com/home/index.php</a> and click on LED replacement bulbs if you want to upgrade your incandescent bulb torch. The Luxeon Star bulbs are a lot brighter than the earlier types.<br> <br> Tom Cole<br> <br> Farrell wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid014901c4c7e7$4ad655f0$fbb62341@youro0kwkw9jwc"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">And not an old-fashioned incandescent-bulb flashlight (or at least don't make that your only one). I used to keep one of those in my toolkit and 50% of the time, when I needed it, the battery would be dead.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Two or three years ago I bought an LED flashlight. It is not real bright (I'm sure they have better ones now), but every time I've reached for it, it worked. I replaced the battery for the first time about six months ago (just a couple regular AA type).</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Mine is real small. Yesterday I used it (as I have many times) in a poorly lit room while tuning an old upright to shed light on mute placement in the high treble. I lay it on top of the treble dampers and it lights the whole treble string area.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">IMHO, only way to go!</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Terry Farrell</font></div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none;"><b>From:</b> <a title="avery@ev1.net" href="mailto:avery@ev1.net">Avery Todd</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none;"><b>To:</b> <a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:53 AM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none;"><b>Subject:</b> RE: Unglued grand jack tender</div> <div><br> </div> Yes, and be sure you keep a flashlight in your tool kit in case you ever<br> have to remove the fallboard and look inside to make a regulation <br> adjustment! :-) <br> <br> Avery <br> <br> At 12:35 PM 11/10/04, you wrote:<br> <blockquote class="cite" cite="" type="cite"><font face="arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">*GRIN* Have you checked out the Millenium III action with all carbon parts?<br> If I wasn't a technician, I swear I could sell Kawais. <br> -ilex<br> </font> <dl> <dd><font face="tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="tahoma" size="2">From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>]On Behalf Of Cy Shuster<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="tahoma" size="2">Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 9:03 AM<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="tahoma" size="2">To: Pianotech<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="tahoma" size="2">Subject: Re: Unglued grand jack tender<br> <br> </font> </dd> <dd>One of them wouldn't grip at first, so probably the reverse is true, too (Titebond preventing CA from gripping).  I used a different bottle of CA, and that seemed to help, but the first bottle worked on the others.  I guess I should have scraped both wood surfaces first; obviously there was some glue there before (it looked bare, though).<br> </dd> <dd><br>   </dd> <dd><font size="2">Those Kawai "black jacks" are looking better all the time...<br> </font> </dd> <dd><br>   </dd> <dd><font size="2">--Cy--<br> </font> <dl> <dd>----- Original Message ----- <br> </dd> <dd>From: <a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</a> <br> </dd> <dd>To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</a> <br> </dd> <dd>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:23 AM<br> </dd> <dd>Subject: Re: Unglued grand jack tender<br> <br> </dd> <dd>"...wouldn't have a problem with a drop of CA to all the rest to help solidify them for the time being..."<br> </dd> <dd><br>   </dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Yeah, as long as the anticipated follow-up work was jack replacement, rather than gluing with Titebond. I should think that application of CA to the mating wood surfaces would pretty much ruin a good Titebond glue surface.<br> </font> </dd> <dd><br>   </dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Terry Farrell<br> </font> <dl> <dd>----- Original Message ----- <br> </dd> <dd>From: <a href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">David Ilvedson</a> <br> </dd> <dd>To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> <br> </dd> <dd>Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:04 PM<br> </dd> <dd>Subject: Re: Unglued grand jack tender<br> <br> </dd> <dd>I agree, a little titebond applied with a toothpick or such and you have a good repair.  I wouldn't have a problem with a drop of CA to all the rest to help solidify them for the time being...<br> </dd> <dd><br>   </dd> <dd>David I.<br> </dd> <dd><br>   </dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">----- Original message ----------------------------------------><br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">From: Joe Garrett <<a href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>><br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">To: pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Received: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:54:28 -0800<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Subject: Re: Unglued grand jack tender<br> <br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Cy asked: "</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"> why are those =<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times">jacks made in two pieces to begin with?  Is it just so they can fail in =<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times">a repairable way if regulation is off (too much aftertouch)?</font><font face="arial" size="2">"<br> </font> </dd> <dd><br>   </dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Cy,<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Being the maker of obsolete action parts, I can say the Jack is the most difficult item to make. (just close your eyes and try to imagine how that configuration is cut!) It's made that way, because it's better, IMO<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">BTW, I hope you are prepared to replace those jacks, as in fairly soon, as CA doesn't last very well in Stress applications. Please don't do that anymore. I don't care if it is in some PTG manual.....it's a bad way to repair something like that! Especially in a high end piano! Yikes!<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2"><G><br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Best Regards,<br> <br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Captain, Tool Police<br> </font></dd> <dd><font face="arial" size="2">Squares R I<br> </font></dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>