<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 5/21/2004 1:46:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, jonpage@= comcast.net writes:</DIV> <DIV>  <FONT size=3><STRONG>Hi Jon Page.</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3><STRONG>  In one case I removed new tokiwa shanks w= ith 16 mm knuckle placement combined with new & way to heavy Renner blue= s bored to long on an old Stwy style 2. Brand new , with no wear. The hammer= s are recylable. I don't like tokiwa shanks but.... Then there is the B acti= on with Renner 15.5 shanks & too heavy too juiced something urutheres. H= ammers in trash. PIano getting everthing including new shanks. </STRONG></FO= NT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>  I have 3 minimum wage helpers who can do = this job cheap so why through out 4oo bucks worth of basically new parts? Yo= u know?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>   Dale</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><PRE>>...So, the knuckle location had to be changed...extracti= ng the hammers and rehanging them >on new shanks and flanges with a different knuckle location.  This was a >lot more money than 2 or 3 hours of my time and a set of knuckles. Why not put identical weight hammers on new shanks. (Unless the shank length is not generic). This way you have a prehung set for some other job. <X-SIGSEP><P></X-SIGSEP> Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. <A title=mailto:jonpage@comcast.net href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net" eu= dora="autourl">mailto:jonpage@comcast.net</A>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~= ~~~~~~~~~~~ </P></PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>