---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment The supply houses have replacement brackets. Maybe if you made a tracing of the best sample they could send a close match. Notice I said close. There will be some fitting. Put on your thinking cap, Jon Page At 04:43 AM 11/26/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Does anyone know what to do with (grand) action brackets that have >"spalled", or cracked, fragmented, alligatored (not sure what word to >use)? They're in a 1927 Premier 4'8" grand, and look as though they >were made in the early days of cast aluminum (?) or from "pot metal". >The screws into the keyframe can't be tightened or fragments of the >action brackets will just break off. Elsewhere all over the brackets, >there are little cracks and flakes of metal coming off -- they're >disintegrating. I think they've also expanded and thrown the action >spread and other relationships out, so that it now is un-regulatable. >The closest match I could find in any catalog were the Jacob Doll type, >so I ordered some and they're close, but no cigar -- they or the action >rails would have to be re-milled to make everything fit and regulate >properly. I suppose new wooden or aluminum or Dural ones could be cut >out of 1/2" maple or plate aluminum. What have other techs done with >these? >dnereson@dim.com Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/28/c5/b2/33/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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