replacing upright liftrod hanger

[Avery Todd]

Hi Clyde,

Oh well. At least I tried. I said I hadn't done one of those
in a very long time. :-)

Avery

At 07:14 AM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote:


>Avery Todd wrote:
>
> > Why do the hooks need replacing? Is one or more broken?
>
>One is broken.  I have no idea why they break.
>
>Is the pad between the two pieces missing/worn out?
>
>No.
>
> > Could you make the bass
> > dampers lift sooner by replacing the pad between them and then
> > regulating the damper lift by bending some wires?
>
>Not in this case.
>
> > Has it been too long for me to be responding to a question like this?
> > Am I missing something? Entirely possible. It's gotten entirely too
> > close to freezing today for a location like Houston! :-)
>
>The first time I came across a broken liftrod hanger I sent it off somewhere
>to have it fixed.  That was before I knew I could fix such stuff myself.
>When it came back I looked at it and thought, "I could do better than that
>myself."  It didn't look professional at all.
>
>And I have managed to get a couple done, but I was never happy with the
>result, and the way I went about it, it was too much trouble.  I am glad for
>the responses I've received.  As the song from "Sound of Music" says,
>sometimes "I need someone older and wiser, telling me what to do."  Well,
>they don't have to be older, I'm almost 55 myself, but I haven't been a
>fulltime piano technician for very long.
>
>Regards,
>Clyde
>
>