---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 9/22/2002 7:08:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, kswafford@earthlink.net writes: > Subj:Re: Importance of the staple: was hammer felt (Renner Blues) > Date:9/22/2002 7:08:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:kswafford@earthlink.net">kswafford@earthlink.net</A> > Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > > > > > My info from several classes at conventions is that staples are only > > there because "the consumer expects them". > Kent Wrote > Maybe. Earlier this summer I came to a Steinway L with a set of > Ronsen > hammers less than a year old. The hammer felt had popped loose from one > side of the molding of a single hammer. When I removed the offending > hammer from the action, I found that the staple had been pulled out of > the molding, but that the staple had never been installed properly; the > staple had been bent up and one leg of the staple had never reached the > wood of the molding. It just made me wonder, had both legs of the > staple made it to the wood, would it have been enough to keep the felt > from popping loose? Was it just a coincidence that the felt with the > bad staple came loose? > > Hi Kent It wouldn't have made any difference if the staples had gone in. Ray has had a bit of trouble with some batches of glue in the recent past but this has been resolved. I order all my hammers from him without staples. I've taken spare hammers and tried to pull the felt off . It's not possible, the wood will come off first. Dale Erwin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/2d/37/e8/b3/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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