Use a pair of pliers, and place one prong on the tip of the bolt and the other on the bak edge of the action bracket. GENTLY squeeze at little on each bolt moving the bracket slightly and not enough to torch or stress the action, a little at a time and repeat until the action comes loose from the bolts. Randy Chastain Take a pair of pliers, put one prong on the end of a bolt with the other prong on the back side of the action bracket and gently squeeze the pliers a little. Do this to each bracket evenly and gently, evening out the stresses so you don't put stress or torque the action. Go over it a couple of times until it comes loose. Don't bang. The manufacturers banged them on in many cases so they can be very difficult to remove. Work smarter, not harder. Randy Chastain On Mar 20, 2010, at 4:12 PM, John Ross wrote: > I do believe the word I used was tap. > John Ross > Windsor, Nova Scotia > On 20-Mar-10, at 7:04 PM, PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote: > >> With everyone recommending banging the brackets off the bolts, you might want to realize that the bracket metal is not made to withstand a lot of pounding or leverage pressure. Claw hammers? You really don't want to have to replace an action bracket. If you have an upright shank removal tool (you know, the one with the mickey-mouse ears), you can use it to gently but with good force lever the brackets forward. >> >> The other suggested option of turning down the action bracket studs is risky unless you know exactly how far down you turn them (index, mark, count, etc), then turn them back to the original position when the action is replaced. >> >> P >> >> In a message dated 3/20/2010 3:00:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, pianoman at duanemcguire.com writes: >> 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/20100320/9655c0ff/attachment.htm>
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