>Can anyone help with a troublesome squeak I'm getting from the brass pitman >& the pads it contacts... >Ken Strick >e-mail: Strick@UConnVM.UConn.Edu In Albuquerque last year I heard Norm Neblett speak of a corrective measure for this area when all elses fails. Not too certain how he goes about accomplishing it, but the end results are something like the Yamaha pitman concept. I believe he makes the hole larger where the brass rod travels through, creates a pilot hole in the underlever lift rail and in the wood lever where the brass rod contacts, and makes a wood dowel with a fluted pedal pin and punching at each end. This thereby ends all contact with the area that you say is causing the troublesome squeak. Maybe somebody here on the list has seen this fix in the PT Journal, or can also confirm what I am recalling. Keith A. McGavern, RPT Oklahoma Chapter 731 Oklahoma Baptist University Shawnee, Oklahoma
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