Um, I had this experience only once, John. It was a big ol' upright like you said. Unfortunately, I forgot the work-around, but it was either a junkbox part from another upright, or a kludge of some sort. Regardless, I'd be more inclined to try one of the other suggestions already mentioned, i.e., roll your own flanges from scratch, move/modify the slot for the action rail, remove material from the back and so on. Otherwise, if you need more distance from damper to rail (and I'm having a tough time with perspective at the moment), could you not work from the 'back' end of an upright damper flange instead of the pinned side? Seems like it would be easier to plug & fill everything behind the pinned area; then drill a new screw hole and "move" the slot, rather than working with new cp holes, rebushing, etc. Could you not use the business end of a commonly available upright flange, then cut/glue an extension portion from yet another flange? Sorry if I'm not "seeing" this right. Jim Harvey, RPT At 10:51 PM 10/22/99 -0300, you wrote: [cut] >Has anyone tried, drilling the holes in flange for the pin in a different place >and rebushing the hole. Possibly removing the bushing cloth and filling the >origional hole with epoxy. >Oh yes, on some of the answers, I don't think that the people realized that it >was for a damper flange on a large upright.
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