At 06:52 PM 5/28/99 EDT, you wrote: >et al; > I have a Chickering about ready to go home and all the tuning is >breaking/making worse the brass whippen/wippen/repetition lever flanges. You >know the little cracks that develop in the pin holding groove :-(. >There were no broken or loose flanges before I started tuning. > > If my understanding is correct these particular flanges are not >available...right? >Question: Has anyone ever tried "silver soldering" these thingees? Think it >would work? >Jim Bryant (FL) > I did a Chickering Quarter grand about 5 years ago that had broken wip flanges all over the place. APSCO had replacement brass flanges which worked fine, and for your sake I hope they still do. They didn't have hammer flanges though :-( Ken Jankura Newburg, PA
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