> What possesses a normally sane person like me to be > willing to work on this piano *again*? $$?..and who said you were sane?!? Clyde, all: Anytime you see something like this piano, with plastic parts, made in the infancy of plastics manufacturing (post WWll +- 15 years), disclaimer yourself until you run out of breath, ink, or both. Plastic made back then had no tensile strength, nor was it impact resistant..not like today's plastic. Clyde, that floor vent had something to do with the degredation of that plastic also. If it seems like I am the 'defender of the plastic part' in pianos, take into consideration my 11 years at a plastics manufacturing facility, part of which was being on the front line of manufacturing a brand new process(Nylon and Rubber and sometimes Glass added to Poly Phynolene Oxide(PPO) for manufacturing a brand new application(Auto exterior - Saturn). In that short 11 years, I saw alot, and learned alot about manufacturing and plastics. It seems plastics is still living down its 'junk' classification from its early years. Take a look around your own house and tell me how much 'junk' you see.. -Phil Bondi (Fl.) tito@philbondi.com
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