<!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 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yet another question, = folks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had to repin all the Steinway = shanks I recently installed.  When they came, they were the best examples of = perpetual motion machines I had ever seen.  Well, golly, almost all = of them have loosened up again!--not to their original state, but much looser = than I find acceptable. (The piano got used a couple of times while work = was in progress.)   Dang, I've never had this happen before---am I in = the twilight zone?  I couldn't believe my eyes.  Would = shrinking the cloth help before I pin....again?   Grrrr.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, I was surprised the first time I = repinned to find that the center pins were all .052.  That = seemed sort of big for original pinning.  I replaced them with .053.  Now I feel = like I'm going to end up using telephone poles to get them = right.</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2> Here I thought I was almost done with this job = and now this......  :-(</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>