> > Dear Ed, > > You're not alone in dumbness, I assure you. > > If this ever happens again, see if the inhabitants of the house own a hair > dryer. Use it as hot and fast as it will go, aimed right down at the hammer > butts, and in 15 or 20 minutes you should have everything back to normal, > maybe even a little less sluggish than before you took it outside. > > Susan Ed Carwithen wrote: > > It is a cold and damp day here, and the inside of the house is nice and > >toasty from the wood stove heater. All I can figure is that the wood and > >felts were reacting to the cold and damp outside and swelled up. > > I waited 1/2 hour for the action to re-acclimate, and it was getting > >better. Will check again tomorrow to see if things have returned to normal. Susan's hair dryer trick will usually fix more than the hammer problems, I routinely use a small 1200 watt dryer on action centres that are sluggish due to moisture. With this type of hair dryer, I haven't had any problems with overheating action parts, wood, felt or plastic. Concentrated heat guns are a different story, though...... Regards, Rob Kiddell, Registered Piano Technician, PTG atonal@planet.eon.net
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