New Yamaha M500: "damper rest rail"?

[David Nereson]

Dempsey Jr., Paul E wrote:

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> /Which reminds me, how the heck do you adjust the backchecks on a 
> spinet? =/
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> / I can hardly get a toothpick between the stickers, much less my wire =/
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> /bender.../
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> /--Cy Shuster--/
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> /Bluefield//, WV///
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> Paul E. Dempsey, RPT
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> Piano Technician Sr.
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> Marshall University
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> Huntington, WV
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    There was a tool in the Journal quite a while back (10 years?) that 
somebody concocted -- it was a combination spinet backcheck bender and 
hinge pin remover or something like that.  I forget the exact shape, but 
it was a long curved stick with a "stepped," or V-shaped end (the V 
being in a vertical plane), oriented just right so as to be able to 
reach down and bend spinet backchecks in or out.  It engaged the top of 
the backcheck block, not the wire. 
    --David Nereson, RPT