Reducing Touch Weight

[Jon Page]

A 1/8" hole drill completely through the molding has less than .1gr
weight change. The biggest change is in filing the surface and planing the
sides.




At 09:02 PM 11/3/98 EST, you wrote:
>Hi!  The never-ending search for ways to deal with excess touch weight in
>Steinways has me wondering about a suggestion from an engineer friend.  He
>suggested drilling holes in the hammer molding, and I know one rebuilder who
>has tried that and said the reduction in touch weight that he obtained was
>minimal.  However, does anyone have information about how many holes you can
>drill without weakening the molding, what size, what spacing between them,
>etc?  Thanks, Linda Scott
>
>

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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