Bummer Old Upright

[Terry Beckingham]

Mark,

I haven't done any shimming yet. I drove in one 3/0 pin and got a torque of 
about 60 inch pounds. The old pins are only 2 inches long. Perhaps drilling 
the holes deeper and using a 2 1/4 inch pin would give some extra bite. 
This is an open block. On the surface it looks good, but who knows what the 
other plies are like.

Cheers

Terry

At 10:24 PM 4/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Good Day-  Terry
>
>  IMHO - I think that it probably relates to the pin block being shot.
>Pins driven to the plate by the last person should have
>been a good clue. :) What are you shimming pins with?
>
>
>have worked on bummers
>Mark Ritchie RPT
>
>
>In a message dated 4/10/01 8:36:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:
>Snip
><<
>  What puzzled me was that I went quickly through the pins in the center of
>  the piano and they seemed weak, but good enough for now. After shimming a
>  number of the pins, I noticed that a bunch of tuning pins that had not been
>  identified as being loose, now had the characteristic of jumping about a
>  half step down when trying to just move the pitch down a hair. Could this be
>  related to the fact that the coils were squished up to the plate?
>
>  Terry Farrell
>  Piano Tuning & Service
>  Tampa, Florida
>  mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>   >>