Hi Stacey and John, A good job whilst watching TV. If you ream all the bushings of the new flanges out to #21 with the Mannino reamer the job goes a lot easier. A few weeks ago I changed a complete set of wippen flanges this way. With the new flanges prepped, the job went quite quickly in the shop, and it seemed less tedious. Think like a factory worker, so you are not constantly picking up a different tool, is the key to speed and consistency. You soon get a rhythm going. One job like this and the reamers have paid for them selves. Hope things are going well in Vic for you and the family. Just think no -40C this winter. <G> Regards Roger At 07:59 AM 9/21/01 -0300, you wrote: >Hi Stacy, >I just replaced all the p;astic parts with wood in a similar vintage >Heintzman, >last month. >I replaced the jacks w/o flanges, the backchecks, the hammer and wippen >flanges and the >damper flanges. I used the parts from Schaff #3791, 530X , 511C and 3717W. >Pianophile did not have the jacks w/o flanges. By using Schaff I was able to >pass >a saving on to the customer. >There was no problem with regulation, after the exchange of parts. >If you don't have a set of Don Manino's reamers, now is the time, because it >is >a lot of centre pins to replace. >It did take quite a lot of time, but the customer was happy with the bill. >Be sure to >demonstrate all the work involved. The hammer butt flanges were actually ok, >but >it didn't make sense not to change them, when everything was apart. >Regards, >John M. Ross >Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada >piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Stacy Adams" <adams_piano@hotmail.com> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:27 AM >Subject: Old plastic action parts > > >> >> List, >> >> I inspected an older (50s or 60s) Heinzman console today, the piano was to >> be evaluated for consigment at the store I work at. The piano was in >> absolutely great shape, good board, bridges nearly perfect, nice finish >> even...but the action had plastic flanges and jacks. The jacks were so >> brittle that I would just have to press lightly on the side of one and it >> would snap off at the centre pin. I wonder if it would be possible to >find >> a similar wooden jack, and also replace the flanges? Has anyone ever >> attempted anything like this? I would expect that even if this were >> possible it probably wouldn't be cost effective given the amount of labor >> involved. >> >> Any comments? >> >> Stacy Adams >> Victoria, BC >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >> >
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