Plastic (old) elbow dilemma

[Susan Kline]

At 07:00 AM 10/19/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Jim,
>If you go back  the PTG Journal from March,  99, Zen has a good article on
>elbows and the first part would be good reading for your client who will
>probably think you are breaking them on purpose.
>                           James Grebe

I just went back and read this article again. Good article, but I'd do a 
couple of things differently: She talks about being sure to tighten all 
screws when the action is out of the piano. Since the flanges are often 
plastic, just waiting to break, I don't touch them! I've also heard another 
tip which can shorten the job. If you take a small felt-tip marker, and 
draw a line across the sticker where it comes out of the old elbow, and 
turn the new ones on to match, you'll have almost no lost motion to do 
afterwards. 

Thanks for mentioning the article, James.

Susan