[pianotech] Spinet Hammer Butt Springs

[Barbara Richmond]

I've only done this job once (about 25 years ago) and had no problem installing the springs, guess I didn't pull hard enough. Maybe having done some needlework helped my judgment. It's always nice to know potential pitfalls of a job, but sometimes they're a little over-rated. My older brother and sister would always have me go down into the basement first--I didn't realize that there were monsters down there... :-) 

Barbara Richmond, RPT & sacrificial lamb 
near Peoria, Illinois 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> 
To: pianotech at ptg.org 
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:33:39 PM 
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Spinet Hammer Butt Springs 

I've done maybe a half dozen of these through the years, all 
without the rod. It's just not that difficult to line the 
springs up, even if you have to spend a couple of minutes 
straightening them up after installation. Finding the 
committee approved alignment rod before the fact isn't all 
that much of a deal breaker. 
Ron N 
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