Sustain pedal plastic

[Susan Kline]

At 11:14 AM 10/07/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>I will soon tune a 1978 Schafer and Sons piano for a customer 50 miles away.
>
>She called and said that "with a bang" the sustain pedal broke. She said it 
>wasn't the metal pedal, nor the pedal bearings, nor the dowel, nor the pedal 
>rod, but the plastic piece that goes from the pedal to the pedal rod. White 
>plastic, snapped in two.
> Has anyone had to 
>replace such a broken plastic piece?

Hi, Bill 

I assume that this is the same as the Yamaha system, with hollow metal
dowels and 
teflon inserts in the ends. After trying all sorts of stuff on one where 
the insert came loose (in a P202 in a gospel setting), crunching the tube 
to make it fit, etc., I gave up and replaced the whole thing with a good 
old-fashioned wooden dowel with 1/2 of a balance rail pin inserted in each 
end, and the usual cloth punchings, etc.  

I presume that the metal is cheaper to make; otherwise I have no idea why 
they abandoned the (less troublesome) old fashioned wooden dowel. 

I'd take dowels, balance rail pins, a dab of epoxy, drill, small saw 
to cut the wooden dowel to length, the usual pedal stuff; If it turns out 
to be something other than the insert in the metal dowel, do tell us what 
you find. 

Susan