steinway action rails

[John Dewey]

They will not get better. Based on what I have seen of rails that I have
replaced the wood will split, someone will put in biger screws, the wood and
brass will split more, biger screws, etc, etc. I have seen rails that were
split so bad that parts of the brass has fallen off and someone had put in
bolts in place of screws.

John Dewey

-----Original Message-----
From: David Ilvedson <ilvey@jps.net>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 1:17 AM
Subject: steinway action rails


>List,
>
>I was inspecting a Steinway and doing minor repairs and noticed when I
>removed some action parts that the rail tubing has some cracks in them.
What
>is the long term problems if any to develop from this?  All action screws
>are tight and nothing was noticeable until action parts removal.
>
>David I.
>
>