Rubber grommets

David M. Porritt dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu
Thu, 04 Sep 1997 19:37:10 -0500


These are .25 inch.  Actually the .25 inch socket on your cordless
screwdriver will fit them just fine.

dave

BSimon1234@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I have to go and replace the rubber grommets  on a late 70's Baldwin spinet.
> It has little plastic nuts on the spinet wires, then a felt washer, then the
> rubber grommets that stick into the key fork. They have hardened and are now
> clicking badly.
> 
> Does anyone know the size of the plastic nut that adjusts the lost motion? -
> I haven't seen the piano for a year but I think they are about 1/4", possibly
> less. I want to be sure I have the right tools. I plan to stick a nut driver
> into a battery operated drill or screwdriver and spin the nuts off, replace
> the rubber grommets,  and then spin them back on.
> 
> Anyone have a better way of changing these out?  And, -how long have you
> found that this operation to take?
> 
> Thanks,
> B. Simon
> Phoenix

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David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
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