Take the stack off the frame. Holding it at an appropriate angle, swing the whole stack (you can prop one end on a table for this) and see which are freest, which tightest. Take samples of freest and tightest off and use swing test or gram gauge. That'll tell you where you are. If the "average" ones are in a good ballpark, you can just address the ones that are out of sync. I find that once I have found that "average" I can set one end of the stack on the floor, have all hammers swung forward (stack perpendicular to ground), then slowly tilt toward ground. It's easy to pick out which are falling back fast, and which are sluggish. Similar procedure for wipps, but with different angles and hammers swung out of the way. But in situations where quality really matters, I usually end up just repinning the whole set. WIth Mannino's broaches, this has become a fairly easy, efficient job. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico Wimblees@aol.com wrote: > > I know how to correct the problem, but is there an easier way, other > than taking each of them off the rail one at a time, to check the > tightness of grand hammer flanges? Or, for that matter, the wippen > flanges? > > WIm
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