center repinning question

[David Ilvedson]

Holly,

I would have thought the flange cord would be history by now?   I'd slide them back in and tighten the butt plates.

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "holly quigley" <hollyquigley at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 9/3/2008 11:43:53 AM
Subject: center repinning question


>Hi all -
>This seems like a pretty beginner level question, so I'm almost embarrassed
>to ask. I'm working on a small fleet of 30-40 year old Yamaha consoles. Most
>of them have center pins that have walked out of the butt flanges. However,
>I'm finding that since these all have the metal tabs on the hammer butts, if
>I just press the pin back into the joint and tighten the tab screw, it's a
>snug fit. No wiggling back and forth, and at most I'm getting 5 swings. I
>don't want to assume anything and shirk off what needs to be done, but at
>the same time, I have other things to do than repinning if this indicates
>that it *doesn't* need repinning. Am I making sense? I have a lot of
>repinning experience, my earliest training was actually with a school full
>of P22's which did not have the metal tabs, but had a bunch of repinning
>needed. Can someone give me a little quick clarity on this? If the pins have
>walked out is it an absolute that they should be repinned, or is it just a
>case of no one ever tightened those metal tab screws?
>Thanks!
>-Holly Quigley