An addendum: I have toyed with the idea of replacing the inaccessible glides with glides that are Yamaha/Kawai style (have a flat surface to attach a wrench to from underneath), or remove the existing inaccessible glides and file them so a wrench will fit on them. Haven't got around to doing it, but no reason it shouldn't work. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Apr 13, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Fred Sturm wrote: > Hi Paul, > For that design, I revert to the "archaic" method taught widely > pre-1980: remove stack and keys; replace stack on frame; install > frame in keybed position; turn up glides so they are all free; place > a strip of newspaper between each glide and the keybed in turn, and > adjust the glide until it just causes drag on the newspaper when you > try to pull it out; remove stack, replace keys, replace stack. > It's not as elegant a method as most of us use today, and rather > cumbersome, but it gives reasonable results. The weight of the keys > fills the gap that was allowed for by the newspaper, and the glides > should all be even with one another. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > fssturm at unm.edu > > > > On Apr 13, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: > >> >> Hi Gang. >> >> What is the easiest way to bed a key frame on a Baldwin R from the >> 60's? Three of the 6 glide bolt screws are under keys. Do I >> remove those keys, put the stack back on and start from there? >> This would, of course, change the weight of the action in those >> places a bit. I've been lucky so far, but this one is so far out, >> I need to start from step one this time! >> >> Thanks >> Paul > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090413/ed831952/attachment.html>
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