upright outside regulations

Isaac Sadigursky irs.pianos@earthlink.net
Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:21:47 -0800


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
> > >
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