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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's my aim (and what I did), =
Jon. I
replaced the blue and green front rail paper =
punchings with a
.060" and a .045" or .030" cardboard punching and then =
whatever
few paper punchings I needed to make the dip right. I think I now =
may have
almost a lifetime supply of blue and green front rail punchings just =
from what I
took out of this piano. :-) I wish I had had my camera =
with
me--the stacks of blue and green were stunning.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've shimmed a lot of vertical piano =
key rails in
my life--especially school pianos at contest time, for some
reason. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jonpage@comcast.net href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net">Jon =
Page</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> Tuesday, December 13, =
2005 6:42
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Shimming balance =
rail/excessive
punchings</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-4>>Is there any =
rule of thumb
that suggests it is better to raise/shim the =<BR>>entire balance =
rail
upwards rather than use an inch-tall stack of =</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-4>>punchings on the =
center pins
to get keys to a proper height?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-4><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-4>Shim the balance =
rail when
possible to avoid springiness</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-4>caused by an =
exaggerated
stack</FONT> of paper/cardboard punchings.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Also use the thickest card punchings possible. My rule is that if =
it</DIV>
<DIV>takes more than two punchings of the same thickness,</DIV>
<DIV>it requires a thicker punching.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Start with the thickest punchings and progress to smaller =
punchings</DIV>
<DIV>during the leveling process.</DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>--
</PRE></X-SIGSEP>
<DIV><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jon Page</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>