The cushion felt appears too thick. You won't have luck compressing them. You'll have to remove the red felt strip and (if not glued to the underfelt) peel the underfelt if it's the layered type. If not then take it off with a sharp chisel and glue on new felt cushions of the appropriate thickness. After market parts do come with some problems. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of pianolover 88 Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 2:08 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Steinway L rebuild question Hello all, I'm rebuilding a Steinway L, circa 1962, and I just finished replacing all the wipps, hammers, shanks, flanges. All these parts are Tokiwa, and I must say I'm pretty happy with the quality and fit. For the hammers I went with abel encore naturals, since I've used these before on S&S and was very pleased, I did the same here. My question has to do with regulating strike distance to 1 3/4". As we know, many pianos have an adjustable rebound rail. We also know that Steinway does NOT. Each rebound cushion is part of the wippen, and does not have a separate up/down adjustment. The reason I bring this up, is that now with all new action parts in place, I find that I must lower the hammers all the way down, firmly resting on the cushions, but that still only yields about 1.5" strike distance. I did bench regulate about a half an octave just to see how it responded at the shortened SD, and it seemed perfectly fine, but I'd like to get it to proper specs. I realize that new parts need breaking in, and the new knuckles will also compress. I tried compressing a few of the cushions by pressing down on them for about 10 seconds, and that put me almost to 1 3/4", but they will likely puff up again. So I placed a box of jiffy weights along the tops (see pic) of a few of them, and if I leave for a day or so, do you think this will compress them enough to allow for proper strike distance, and possible even enough to actually get the shanks at least a bit off the cushions? Or is this not a good idea? Thanks in advance for any help on this issue. Cheers! Terry Peterson Accurate Piano Service <http://unigeezer.com/> UniGeezer.com "Over 50, and not "2" Tired!" _____ Windows LiveT SkyDriveT: Store, access, and share your photos. See how. <http://windowslive.com/Online/SkyDrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_CS_SD_photos_07200 9> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090724/023556fb/attachment.htm>
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