upright outside regulations

[Avery]

Didn't Danny Boone publish something exactly along that line?

Avery

At 12:23 PM 12/31/2005, you wrote:
>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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