David Ilvedson wrote: > She was deonstrating factory hammer hanging. Apparently shanks are not traveled before hanging and not traveled afterwards except by burning in...it does not compute for me either........ > > David I Which factory I wonder..... traveling shanks... at least roughed in... is too my knowledge pretty common practice at european manufacturers... I do this every time and find it no problem to do a quick and decent travel without hammers on. I wonder if we are mixing up traveling problems due to the position of the flange center and those due to hammers not being vertical on the shank. > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 2/22/01 at 5:24 AM David Love wrote: > > >David: > > > >I think she means that after you travel the shanks with the hammers > >already > >hung, you will have to burn the shanks in order to reorient the hammers to > >vertical. > > > >David Love > > > > > >>From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@jps.net> > >>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > >>To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> > >>Subject: traveling > >>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:17:15 -0800 > >> > >>List, > >> > >>I remember a class I (partially) took from Pris Rappaport some years ago > >on > >>hammer hanging. She wanted to make a point about not needing to travel > >the > >>shanks before hanging the hammers. She purposely shimmed a flange on > >each > >>student's jig with traveling paper before the class hung their hammers. > >>Apparently burning in the shanks would do the trick...I still can't > >figure > >>this out...I can understand burning in the shanks to align the hammers > >but > >>how does this travel hammers? > >> > >>David I. > >> > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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