Yamaha Spinet

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Jerry,
Removal of the action is not needed!!!
Do as Brian suggests or get my handy-dandy screw starter.
The compressed action that you are working on ( I am assumin' here )
is a little troublesome to start the screw but usually on the second time,
after droping the screw and getting it with the magnet, I can just barely
get the screw to hold in the hole while the jack is raised and the flange
screwdriver bit placed in the screw slot.
See the tool at    http://primenet.com/~imatunr/
Joe Goss
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Hunt <piano_tunertx@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 4:35 PM
Subject: Yamaha Spinet


> The piano was a 30 year old Yamaha spinet with a
> broken hammer shank. I was able to remove the hammer
> butt withouth removing the action (thanks to my long
> flange screw screwdriver). Not having arms like an
> octopus, I don't think I'll be able to get the hammer
> butt back in without removing the action.
>
> This spinet has the metal forks clipped to rubber
> grommets and they are really hard to remove. My
> questions are this:
> 1) Is there a way to put the hammer back in without
> removing the action?
> 2) Assuming the answer to 1) is no, is there some
> trick to disconecting the forks from the grommets?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jerry Hunt
> Associate member PTG
> Dallas, TX
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