Duane, No one has yet mentioned another step needed in some spinets. Seems about half the time we remove a spinet action (or more - I don't do it often), not only do you have to remove the nuts from the action bracket bolts, but if you remove the kneeboard, there are often screws of some description securing the action at the bottom, as well. No amount of bending or prying at the action bracket bolts will budge the action if you fail to remove the bottom screws. It's not clear from your description if you did this as well, Duane. If not, check it out. William R. Monroe On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Duane McGuire <pianoman at duanemcguire.com>wrote: > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100321/4142c0db/attachment.htm>
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