<!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 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom, I don't know, but what I do know = is that you're probably going to be doing a lot more work trying to steam them = that it would take to just put on a new set. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Is this an upright = or a grand, not that it matters much. You glue them on at the piano, and the wedge = felt will pretty much find it's home without too much fitting later. I've done it = a number of times, and believe me, it's not that hard. Even setting the damper = timing is not that hard. </FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Tvak@AOL.COM href="mailto:Tvak@AOL.COM">Tvak@AOL.COM</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> Sunday, August 11, 2002 = 9:51 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> steaming dampers</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Anybody ever try steaming dampers to improve their = damping ability?  When <BR>they get a little hard and don't dampen as = well anymore, might not steam <BR>soften them up and enable them to do = their job a while longer?  <BR><BR>Tom Sivak</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>