Duane, In some factory procedures the action support studs are raised too high and jam the action bracket against the action bolt. After removing the nut try and use some leverage to pry the bracket loose. Sometimes I tap the bracket off with the handy hammer. You might have to lower the studs if it's really jammed in there. They usually have a squared of section that you can put a wrench on. Find a way Dude! Tom D. ----- Original Message ----- From: Duane McGuire To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:00 PM Subject: [pianotech] Removing a spinet action What is the process to remove an action from a 1958 Story and Clark spinet? Back story: I've been tuning in my shop every morning, preparing for the RPT exam. As a tuner, I'm not even close to part-time. But since I'm preparing for the exam, I've poked my head out the foxhole, and have been tuning a few pianos in the wild. This is how I discovered spinet pianos! For this piano, I discovered that a a treble string was broken. I thought I could be of service and replace the string. But since the bridge pins were hidden behind the action, it seemed that I would need to remove the action to do the repair. I loosened the nose bolt nuts. I tugged at the top of the action bracket, and nothing budged. At that point, I simply said to my self, "Fine! You didn't want to find out about removing a spinet action today anyway!" So I prudently let the sleeping dog lie. It seemed rather cowardly, but that's what I did. -- Duane McGuire 801-830-5858 http://blog.duanemcguire.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100320/9ab2984a/attachment.htm>
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