pulley key repair kit

[Norman Barrett]

The inserts that came with my kit were made of fiber, not wood and I am told that they get noisy. It is very easy to insert a balance rail pin in a scrap of wood, set the key upside down on the pin and use it as a guide for the saw kerf. It has been a while since I did this but I think that a coping saw blade was a nice size for the veneer.

Norm Barrett
Memphis Chapter PTG

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From: <Tvak@aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:18 PM
Subject: pulley key repair kit


> Just bought the pulley key repair kit from Schaff.  Anybody have any 
> experiences with this, bad or good?  
> 
> Looks basically like it would work.  There's a drill bit to bore a recess 
> into the bottom of the key surrounding the elongated balance rail pin hole, 
> into which you insert a little wooden donut which has a proper sized hole.  
> 
> I seem to recall reading about a method of sawing into the bottom of the key 
> on the elongated side of the hole and inserting a piece of veneer to resize 
> it...  Whereas I'd probably screw that up, this seems do-able, even for a 
> klutz like me.
> 
> Any guidance is appreciated.  I hesitate to proceed further for fear that I 
> might irreversibly ruin this plywood-soundboard/no serial #/no name spinet 
> piano.
> 
> Just practicing,
> Tom Sivak
> 
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