<HTML>In a message dated 7/22/02 12:11:14 AM Central Daylight Time, pcpoulso@pacbell.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hello all: I have the action from a 1927 Story and Clark grand in the shop, with peculiar repetition springs.  They loop up out of the jack window, curve backwards, and hook onto a string loop that comes out of the top of the wippen.  Has anyone worked on such an animal before, and if so, is there a way to adjust the spring tension short of disengaging it from the loop, bending it, and then replacing it? I am leery about doing it that way, because the loops are cotton and some of them have snapped already. I fear that I may have to just break down and replace them all.  Help Mister Wizard! Patrick Poulson, RPT </BLOCKQUOTE> Patrick There might not be an easier way to do this, but I would suggest you tug hard on all those cotton strings, and make sure they don't break. Whenever I have an action in the shop with cotton strings in the wippens, I give them all a hard tug. I want them to break in the shop, where I can repair then on my bench, with plenty of light, tools, equipment, etc., instead of getting call a couple of weeks or months later with a complaint that a key doesn't work, and having to replace the string in the customer's home. Wim </HTML>