Spreading flanges on Steinway upright

[R Moody]

Bill, List,
    No I haven't put a flange on a flat surface as you suggest.  Good idea
as that could reveal traveling issues.
The flanges just look squished.  I have picts.  Try www.pnotec.com/photos or
email me at remoody@midstatesd.net
Regarding the jack and flanges I must decide whether it is better to seek
them out, remove and replace  on to original wippens, or order new wippens
ca $7.00 my cost.   The jack I am looking for comes from the SnS wip with
large heel as pictured in Schaff or Pianotek catalog.     ---ric


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: Spreading flanges on Steinway upright


> At 2:26 PM -0600 10/27/03, R Moody wrote:
> >Also is there a source for individual jacks?  I hate to buy a whole new
> >wip assembly just because a jack lost its heel.
> >Schaff and Pianotek don't show them.
>
> Ric,
>
> I've got a brown bag of stray Stwy vertical parts. Email me a a photo
> (also containg a machinst rule, for reference).
>
> I've seen spreading wippen flanges, but in a HS practice room Baldwin
> 243. They were the result of flange screws being cranked down during
> the extremely dry  months, and six months around the annual cycle,
> the flanges. puffing up and around the winter-tightened fasteners.
> Have you taken a flange off and examined it on a flat surface
> (granite surface block or cast iron machine top)?
>
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
>
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