Fallboard assembly from hell...

[Richard Wagner]

You're not alone.  I quit removing the entire assembly years ago and have
since taken to just removing the clips at the back of the fallboard, all
the while fervently praying that the mechanical engineer originally
responsible for that monstrosity was roasting somewhere in a none too
pleasant afterlife!

Reminds me of a story relayed to me by a friend whose father used to work
for John Deere.
It seems they developed one model of tractor years ago, the design of
which was so poorly thought out, that in order to replace a broken fan
belt, it was neccessary to drop the engine!
Of course the engineers back at the factory just jeered at the people
doing service work in the field, claiming that their reports were nonsense
and that they were all just incompetent... until, that is, they began to be
ordered out into the field to do the work whenever a fan belt broke.
Needless to say, the "imagined" problem cleared up as soon as the
engineers started getting dirt on their highly educated hands  ;-)

	Richard



On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 Piannaman@aol.com wrote:
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> Please, someone, tell me I am not alone in disliking removing fallboards of
> Acrosonic spinets of a certain age.  Instead of actually removing the clasps
> on  the back of the fallboard that connects it to the guide bar, I took the
> whole assembly out when I began the job 3 weeks ago.  3 weeks later, with two
> freshly-topped keys in hand, I took a rather excessive amount of time in
> figuring  out how to get it back in correctly!
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> My memory isn't what it used to be...er, what was I talking abouut....?;-)
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> Dave Stahl
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