upright outside regulations

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi,
Been thinking along the lines that there ought to be a better way to set
upright damper timing outside the piano. Spoons included!
 At the Yamaha factory they had a little motor that pulsed the damper pedal
to wink the dampers. ( the hammers were not installed  until damper
regulation was finished )
We usually do not have the pleasure of having the hammers out of the way.
Nor are we doing 50+ dampers as a rule.
1. Going to try vise grips clipped to the sustain lever end opperated with
the left hand and regulate with the right hand.
2. measure the string distance plus 1/8" and make a jig to hold a bar to
regulate dampers to touch.  Sort of like the Carl Meyer Key leveling bar.
Spoons:
3. Add a sliding jig offset of 1/4" amd regulate all flat dampers to just
clear when whippen is raised.
4. Regulate wedge and bichord dampers to measurments from points on the
front of the damper wood with jig slider  on the bar.

Items 2, 3, and 4 have not been made yet, but I gotta start somewhere<G>
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Dorr" <a440@bresnan.net>
To: "piano tech list" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 10:23 AM
Subject: Trailer ideas?


>
>
> Hi All!
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> One of my first investments in 2006 is likely to be a trailer for moving
> pianos.  I'm thinking 5' x 8', enclosed, of course.  I would love to hear
from
> those of you who move pianos in your business ideas about things/features
to
> look for and to avoid.  I will have to custom-order mine in order to get
the
> top-to-bottom clearance high enough to clear larger uprights and grands.
>
> Secondary question:  What are your favorite moving methods?  I like to use
a
> piano sled on top of a 4-wheel dolly.  I also have the separate dollies
that
> attach to each end of a vertical piano, and are held on by the straps
> stretching end to end, but sometimes going over lips and thresholds my
> "helpers" are too lazy to actually LIFT the dang thing and the lip of the
> dolly can catch and try to work its way off of the piano.  Once this
happened
> and it busted up the bottom of the piano pretty good.  Took me DAYS of
work to
> restore that!
>
> Thanks,
> John Dorr
> Helena, Montana
>
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