Yamaha Upright hammer flanges

[Roger Jolly]

Hi David,
           It's probably cheaper to just replace the flanges, with the
advantage of having new centre pinning. If you are going to replace the
cord, Take one of the good flanges and a flange screw. Mount the flange on
a piece of board, use a small panel nail and pull the loop taut, then
hammer it into the board. 
 Remove flange, reinstall the flange screw in the hole, and cut the head
off.  Now you have a simple jig to make all the loops the same length.
Hope this helps.

Regards Roger


At 12:27 AM 5/16/02 -0400, you wrote:
>List,
>
>I am about to make a bid on a job to replace all the hammer flanges in a 
>Yamaha P-22 studio upright(the threads are breaking at a prodigious rate, as 
>per a previous post...).  My "G" works labor guide suggests that this might 
>take me 5 hours.  Has anybody done this?  I think that Joe's estimate is 
>reasonable, giving a bit less than 4 minutes per flange, but I wonder if 
>anybody out there has done this job before?
>
>Thanks for any input!
>
>Dave Stahl
>
Roger Jolly
Balwin Yamaha Piano Centres.
Saskatoon/Regina.
Canada.