Baldwin spinet "lost motion" issue twice in one week....

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

I've had something like this where the regulation buttons for let-off 
were packed and the jacks weren't re-setting.  These old spinets to 
regulate too close to the strings.

Andrew

At 11:03 PM 3/29/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Dave,
>
>Only one note on each that wouldn't regulate??!!  You're a Star!  I 
>can't say any of these I've ever seen regulate well.
>
>But, I digress.....
>
>Is the hammer resting on the rail, or, more specifically, at which 
>linkage does the action hang up?  Is it at the sticker,wippen, or 
>hammer, or other.  I might suspect a tight jack pinning not allowing 
>the jack to return under the butt all the way.  Any more clues you can give??
>
>William R. Monroe
>
>Dave S writes:
>
>SNIP
>Everything was there, but the lost motion ate up about a quarter 
>inch of keydip.  I looked for things that might be wedged in there, 
>but I could find nothing.  And I didn't have time to pull the 
>action, having already spent most of the appointment pitch raising 
>the pso and vacuuming out the various places where who-knows-what 
>may have dwelt.
>
>Second piano, a just-delivered rental piano, had the same 
>symptoms--again on only one note--but it was one of the newer type 
>Baldwins with the rubber grommets hooked into the lifter fork, and 
>the plastic nut on top.
>
>I checked linkage as much as I could, but could find nothing wedged 
>anywhere on either instrument, though on the second one the 
>connecter to the elbow was sitting up too high.  Very 
>frustrating.  I explained to the owner and renter that this is one 
>big reason why spinets in general should be avoided.
>
>Dave Stahl, RPT but humbled by Baldwins again

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