This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Subject: RE:Schimmel Regulation Problem Scott, Ric, I had the same problem with the same vintage Schimmel. Letoff buttons turned all the way up and still excessive lettoff. This was a regulation for performance with time contraint . I removed the lettoff rails from the action rail, brought them to the shop and removed (If I remember )around 1/8" from the top of these rails with a small thumb plane. Yep... this is even faster as long as you can take off a consitant = thickness and you still have enough wood for the letoff button screws to = bit sufficiently into wood. Cant remember the exact configuration for = Schimmels, but a Petrof I recently worked on might have experienced a = problem with this solution. The letoff rail was screwed directly to the = hammershank rail, and was not particularilly thick in itself. Taking = off say 3 mm would have required the letoff button screws to go that = much into the hammer rail. Maybe not a problem.. maybe the otherway = around. Make sure you have clearence if you do it this way. Good solution tho = Tom. I'll keep this one in my book of tricks. Cheers RicB =20 Ric, Yes this rail had enough material over the tops of the letoff = button screws to trim. I scribed a pencil line along both sides of the = rails and planed to the line. I had at first thought of running them through the table saw, but = a jig would have been necessary to hold the rail and I was rushed.=20 I'm still wondering about the cause of this condition. I can understand the =20 unnamed dealer here in Massachusetts allowing a poorly regulated piano = to get out of their door, since their idea of dealer prep is to polish = the case before delivery and also had serviced this piano for=20 several years without attempt to correct such an obvious condition = (,i.e. letoff over 1/4") but its hard to imagine the manufacturer ,with = such a great reputation, having let this piano through quality control. Thoughts ? Tom Driscoll RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f8/92/30/77/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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