Also,Late Ernie June taught severall classes in that topic. I had used his technique and it woyks!! Best wishes to everyone for Healthy,Peacefu ll and prosperous Year!! Greetings from rainy So.California! Isaac -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Joe And Penny Goss Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:32 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: upright outside regulations I think Mary Smith also has a way. Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" <avery1@houston.rr.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:59 PM Subject: Re: upright outside regulations > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > >_______________________________________________ > >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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