Replacing plastic elbows

[hubert liverman]

A straight hemostat with the clamp teeth filed down (so you can squeeze it)
will help clear the small shards out. Stronger than tweezers and not as
heavy as flat nosed  thin pliers. Yard/Stoop sales are the places to pick up
used tools to modify inexpensively and modify. If  you blow it, so what?

Hubert Liverman
Tuner/tech
Opelika,AL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@comcast.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:34 AM
Subject: Replacing plastic elbows


> Get a small pair of end nippers and grind them down to a width which will
> fit into the wippen slot. <jpg attached>
> For the ones which have not broken, side cutters will nip off the bulk and
> then the narrow end nippers will remove
> the rest.  Do all of them, otherwise it'll cost more in the long run to
> spot replace; not to mention the aggravation.
>
> Grip the sticker with Vise-Grips at the end of the old elbow and nip off
> the plastic with cutters. Screw on the new
> plastic elbow to the Vise-Grips and clip the elbow in place.  It should
> take no more than 1.5 hrs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon Page, piano technician
> Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
> mailto:jonpage@comcast.net
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