Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote: > Thanks Zy for your contribution. I have noticed that among the spinet pianos > that have the plastic elbows, that the ones that had the weakest, most > brittle parts were the ones that had an uncontrolled Dampp-Chaser > dehumidifier rod. I have often suspected that the heat from the rod > contributed to the degredation of the material but not being a chemist, I had > no way of proving or even researching that idea. > > Any ideas on this anyone? I once replaced the elbows of a Betsy Ross Spinet > (one of my favorite little pianos) with the dehumidifier blazing away in > Winter where the elbows crumbled as easily as the Christmas candy that I was > offered while doing the job. I needed no tools to remove the elbows or even > the remnants, I could break out the material with my fingers alone. > > Bill Bremmer RPT > Madison, Wisconsin Makes sense about the heat from the humidifier. I often see plastic crumbling very early on in a pianos life in homes where lots of dry heat is used in the winter. Sometimes Schools who nortoriously insist on placing a piano with its back right up against an electric panel oven also have this problem. Personally I almost always replace plastice parts with wood ones whenever the situation comes up. I am definatly not sold on plastic, not yet anyways. Wood works great, what can I say. Richard Brekne I.C.P.T.G. N.P.T.F.
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