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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE:Schimmel Regulation =
Problem</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><PRE><I>Scott, Ric,
I had the same problem with the same vintage Schimmel. Letoff buttons
turned all the way up and still excessive lettoff.
This was a regulation for performance with time contraint .
I removed the lettoff rails from the action rail, brought them to the
shop and removed (If I remember )around 1/8" from the top of these rails
with a small thumb plane.
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<DIV>Yep... this is even faster as long as you can take off a =
consitant
thickness and you still have enough wood for the letoff button screws =
to bit
sufficiently into wood. Cant remember the exact configuration for =
Schimmels,
but a Petrof I recently worked on might have experienced a problem =
with this
solution. The letoff rail was screwed directly to the hammershank =
rail, and
was not particularilly thick in itself. Taking off say 3 mm =
would have
required the letoff button screws to go that much into the hammer =
rail.
Maybe not a problem.. maybe the otherway around.<BR><BR>Make sure you =
have
clearence if you do it this way. Good solution tho Tom. I'll keep this =
one in
my book of tricks.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>RicB</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ric,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Yes this rail had =
enough
material over the tops of the letoff button screws to trim. I scribed =
a pencil
line along both sides of the rails and planed to the =
line.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I had at first =
thought of
running them through the table saw, but a jig would have been =
necessary to
hold the rail and I was rushed. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I'm still wondering about =
the cause
of this condition.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I can understand
the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>unnamed dealer here in Massachusetts =
allowing a
poorly regulated piano to get out of their door, since their idea of =
dealer
prep is to polish the case before delivery and also had =
serviced
this piano for </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> several years without attempt =
to correct
such an obvious condition (,i.e. letoff over 1/4") but its hard =
to
imagine the manufacturer ,with such a great reputation, having let =
this piano
through quality control.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Thoughts =
?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Tom Driscoll
RPT</FONT><BR></DIV><PRE></PRE><PRE></PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>