action brackets

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

    Regarding this posting and the one from Phil Romano; I too came upon a
broken action bracket, but on a Yamaha U1. Since it was the one on the end,
I was able to make a repair without even removing the bracket from the
rails. What I did was to go to the hardware store and get a couple of pieces
of spacer metal ( 3/4" by 2", with two holes each, probably used for
screwing two pieces of wood together, I don't know what you'd call them,
obviously). I also bought a tungsten carbide drill bit and two bolts, and a
few washers.
    I repositioned the bracket pieces and marked them with a felt tip pen.
Then I drilled them for the bolts. I then mixed up some JB weld, applying it
to both parts, and clamped the whole thing together tightly. I then laid the
action down on a flat bench to get the angle exactly the same as the other
brackets, and let it set overnight. Put it back in the piano, and everything
worked just great, no regulation needed, just what I was going to do to it
anyway, before I started on this job.
    I was doing this for one of the salesmen whom I work with who had just
bought this piano, used, so I was reshaping hammers, voicing, and regulating
it anyway. But I didn't notice the break in the action bracket until I put
it in the cradle. I'll be looking for this sort of thing in the future,
though.


Kevin E. Ramsey
ramsey@extremezone.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank/Anne/Emily Cahill" <fcahill@erols.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:56 AM
Subject: action brackets


> I am working on an Everett console.
>
> I have a broken action bracket...clean break.
>
> Can this be repaired?
>
> Does anyone have an old bracket for sale? (The bracket is 8 3/8" tall.)
>
> Frank Cahill Associate Member
> Northern VA