Ron, I take it you find the retrofit to adjustable plates worth doing. A couple questions: 1) Do you get them direct from Yamaha? Other? 2) Actual installation, just use a chisel to enlarge the cutout? Any tips? 3) The screwhead (adjusting) is a bit hard to get a blade on (geometry). Korean designs (Samick?) use a capstan. I like the Yamaha overall quality better, but the capstan seems an improvement. Anyone know a way to put capstans on a Yamaha plate (source for appropriate size capstan screw)? Thanks, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico Ron Torrella wrote: > > Fred Sturm wrote: > > > [snip]the key blocks enough to be able to add cardboard again. I have > > thought > > of retrofitting something like the Yamaha system of adjutable plates (a > > screw bearing down on what looks like nylon/teflon). Does anyone out > > there do that? Any comments on whether that makes more sense than > > removing wood from the bottom of the blocks, either from the point of > > view of long term adjustment or amount of time/trouble involved? > > Yup. We do that here with decent results. I've noticed only an occasional > squeak in the retrofits. > -- > Ron Torrella, RPT > Ypsilanti, MI
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