Don, I'm going to guess here... Is this one of those actions that did not use felt punchings in the spring groove? If the felt punchings are not present, then it is probably coated with an Emralon fluorocarbon lubricant that was sprayed and baked directly on the wood surface. This would have worked just fine except that the machining was rather crude on most of those actions. So, when the butt rotates through its axis the spring actually slips around on the lubricated, but very rough, surface causing an assortment of clicks, ticks & cricks. If this is the case you have at least two possible solutions. First, you can simply take a hard pencil and work it up and down -- hard -- in the machined "slot" actually making groove for the spring to seat in. Second, and probably the best solution, you can scrape out the Emralon lubricant and glue in a standard felt punching. Regards, Del --------------------------------------------------- Don wrote: > Hi All, > > A clarification may be in order. The click ceases if I move it off the > hammer butt. I can visually see the spring going *sproing* when I hear the > click. The click happens when I mearly lift the hammer to the string > slowly. There are a total of six and 2 are loud enough to hear when the > case is closed and music is being played. > > At 06:34 PM 5/19/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Sometimes on butts without the felt in the crease, the butt actually hits > >the butt-spring. > >It also may be incomplete gluing of the hammer, shanks, or catcher, too. > >Check those out. > >Bill Schlipf Bloomington, IL > >wjstuner@juno.com > > > >_____________________________________________________________________ > >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com > >Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > > > > Regards, Don
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