<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;= charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000;= FONT-FAMILY: Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7= rightMargin=7><BR>I take it this is 186 cm grand?  Since it= has spoons that contact the back of the keys?, I would have made= a jig and bent the spoons up a tad.  That seems much easier= and you keep the factory damper regulation...;-]<BR><BR>You need= to check subtract upweight from downweight and divide by 2 to= find if friction is line.  Check some flange= pinning...<BR><BR>David I.<BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px;= PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid;= PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: <PIANNAMAN@AOL.COM><BR>To:= <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:30:25= EDT<BR>Subject: raising damper lift to lighten= touch<BR><BR><FONT id=role_document face=Verdana color=#000000= size=3> <DIV align=left>Far flung friends and fellow techs,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>One nice thing about doing occasional store work is that= there are lots of guinea pigs to try things out on before I do= it in a customer's home.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yesterday the manager of one of my store accounts said he= had a customer who loved the Seiler 186, but the touch was a tad= too heavy for her tastes.  I suggested the least invasive= procedure I could think of--raising the point of damper= lift.  He said okay.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I regulated the dampers by loosening all the wire block= screws and lowering the wires, using the tray(raised to the= proper point) as a guide.  I brought the lift point to= where the hammer was about 2/3 of the way to the string. = To the touch, it felt like lift was beginning just before= letoff.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I fine regulated them by adjusting the capstans. = (still doesn't look quite as good as a Seiler factory job, but= it's not bad at all).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Also needing regulation were:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The pedal rod</DIV> <DIV>The trap-stop capstan(what DO you call that, anyway?)</DIV> <DIV>The damper upstop rail</DIV> <DIV>The sostenuto rod</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In the end, the touch weight was around 5 grams lighter,= possibly a tad more.  It felt quite good, and all of the= dampers had plenty of clearance.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Would regulating spoons or capstans be far more difficult or= offer other pitfalls?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This was my first experience with  this particular job,= and it came out pretty well, but I'd certainly appreciate any= suggestions from those of you who have more experience doing= this.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave (back on the list after being glued to the Tour de= France)</DIV> <DIV>Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>