>Yes flanges shrink. When I restore a piano with all new flanges, which is >most of them I go out in one year to tighten all the screws as flanges will >shrink and loosen. Will they, or will they crush under the screw in unregulated high humidity cycles and be too loose as a consequence when they dry down again? > It is my common practice. The damp chaser seems to >amplify the problem exponentially. > >D.L. Bullock Would those problem Dampp-Chasers be the ones you put in the piano with those new flanges, or the mis-installed unregulated ones you left there when you did the restoration? How is it you have Dampp-Chasers you won't install shrinking the new flanges you do? Ron N
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