Upright Wippen Rebuilding Questions

[Farrell]

I simply find that you'll just about always find a few cracked flanges on any 90 year old piano - just as this one had. I can pretty much guarantee that a few more will crack if you were to put the old ones back on. I guess something like that, that commonly fails, I feel its best to replace. Good point about the jacks. I'll have to check them carefully. It sure takes a lot of time to glue all those little piece of felt and stuff on a set of wippens. I've polished the spoons, glued on the heel cushion, backcheck felt (had to cut all that) and just started to glue in the new jack springs. Need to finish the springs, glue on new jacks and flanges, and ream and install the new wippen flanges (the ones I got from Pianotek today have about 10 - 15 grams friction!).

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Upright Wippen Rebuilding Questions


> That is very thorough Terry, but I have always just
> rebushed the existing flanges unless the wood is
> rotten or brittle. If you are installing new jacks, be
> prepared though, that the tips may not be as smooth
> and niceley shaped as the vintage stuff.
>      T
> 
> --- Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > Why? Well, such as now, because I am rebuilding the
> > wippens. If I am rebuilding an action, ALL flanges
> > are replaced. Anything less would be less than a
> > proper rebuild, IMHO. My question would then be, if
> > one is rebuilding upright wippens, why wouldn't you
> > want to remove the jack flange?
> > 
> > Terry Farrell