[pianotech] Jack Springs

[David Ilvedson]

I don't see the problem, so why not ask Schaff if they've had noise problems with these jack springs?
If they haven't heard any problems, buy a set and let us know how they worked for you...someone gots to do it and it might as well be you, John... '-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "John Ross" <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 3/11/2010 2:06:30 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Jack Springs


>I guess you are right Wim, I am just enquiring about others  
>experience. Ethical is obviously the wrong word choice.
>It is from Schaff, item number 527A, upright jack spring.
>The physical properties are equal taper from top and bottom, to a  
>compacting of a couple of coils, in the centre, like each end.
>The old springs were a double at each end, and the winding went wider  
>in the middle.
>John Ross,
>Windsor, Nova Scotia.
>On 11-Mar-10, at 5:46 PM, wimblees at aol.com wrote:

>> I don't know if it is ethical to indicate which item and catalogue,  
>> I am talking about.
>> John Ross
>> Not to get off the subject, but why would be unethical not to talk  
>> about product from a certain supply or manufacturing that you think  
>> is inadequate? I think this is one of the great things about this  
>> list. We tell each other what works and what doesn't work.
>> Wim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>
>> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>> Sent: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 11:38 am
>> Subject: [pianotech] Jack Springs
>>
>> I was going to order some upright jack springs, as I am down to my  
>> last set.
>> The diagram I see in the catalogue that it shows a new different  
>> spring. It appears to be of a larger guage.
>> The spinet springs look the same.
>> Would someone like to comment on these new springs.
>> A fellow tech, told me of some new springs he was supplied in  
>> Canada, and he didn't like them, saying they were harder to install,  
>> and were noisier.
>> I think that these must be the ones he was referring to, the  
>> Canadian supplier obviously is supplied by the US firm.
>> He actually talked me out of my second last set. Now I see what he  
>> was referring to.
>> I don't know if it is ethical to indicate which item and catalogue,  
>> I am talking about.
>> John Ross
>> Windsor, Nova Scotia.
>>