Accu-just Hitch pins - any time, any place!

[Jon Page]

Bill,
I am not pursuing the pin replacement. I have made the bearing 
acceptable by replacing the dowels and with judicious shimming
under the rest felt in the tenor and bass.

My final decision on the pin replacement, had I gone that route
would have been to replace only the bass if needed where there is
a heavy mass for the strain.

Good point though and I'm glad I did not go gung-ho, full speed
ahead.

Thanks all,

Jon Page

PS  I did find the two missing aloquats  :-) hiding under a piano.  whew.

At 02:00 PM 08/17/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Some technicians wrote;
>
><<If it appears that putting in the acujust pins will give a proper bearing, 
>go for it. >>  
>and 
><<"Why don't you order some accu-just pins from Baldwin and drill  & insert 
>'em?"
>
>I find it amazing that most of the technicians I have been reading think
that 
>Accu-just hitch pins can be put in any place in any plate.  Drilling holes 
>for these pins can weaken a plate, especially when they are put in the line 
>of where the old hitch pins were placed. PERHAPS Baldwin knows better than 
>these technicians and PERHAPS they designed to plate to take the stresses!
>
>I know of two pianos that catastrophically failed when Accu-just hitch pins 
>were installed. In both cases the plate broke off at the hitch pin line 
>before the piano was even up to pitch. These failures were  back when 
>Accu-just hitch pins had just been introduced, but the pianos currently
being 
>"upgraded" with new pins were not designed for this type of replacement. 
>There is not only degradation of the plate strength due to removal of 
>material, but also the leverage effect of not having the strings sit at
plate 
>level. Any other disasters out there?
>
>Come on you engineers and physicists, - tell me why replacement is all right!
>
>Bill Simon
>Phoenix
>