Brass rail short tongues

[Horace Greeley]

Richard,

Try old style Chickering upright repair clips, if you can find them.

Best.

Horace


At 11:00 AM 2/28/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>I have a Bush and Lane 1913 with a brass rail but the tongues are
>short, so that the repair clips are too long, and have to be ground
>down, or the action rail has to be carved out.  Does any one know of
>short repair clips that are being sold?  The Kimball repair clips are
>short, but the threads are in the wrong part.  The threads must be in
>the plate, not in the clip.
>	Only three tongues are broken, so at the present I have not
>considered having the rails duplicated. Thanks
>
>Richard Moody
>
>
>
Horace Greeley

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