This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Alan, the pressure plates are all good but the main part of the wippen flanges are the problem. Doug, thanks for your answer - just what I needed. I don't know how many times I've glanced at that item and it just didn't register. Tom Cole alan and carolyn barnard wrote: >Assuming you are just talking about the top little pressure plates, I >replaced a whole set of them in a Chick 1/4 grand and it's a pretty simple >job. It will mess up some of your hammer shank/whippen alignments, a >little. The secret to an easier life is to buy (or make) a butt plate >inserter tool. Don't know where I got mine, probably Schaff. > >Alan Barnard >Salem, Missouri > > > > >>[Original Message] >>From: Thomas Cole <tcole@cruzio.com> >>To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> >>Date: 05/15/2005 3:23:39 PM >>Subject: Chickering Wippen Flanges (brass) >> >>I'm rewhatevering a 1911 Chickering grand which has brass flanges for >>hammers and wips. The hammer flanges are beefy and holding up well, but >>the wippens are starting to break a few tongues at the notch for the >>center pin. About a dozen are no longer able to hold the center pin >>tightly. Anybody have some to spare? Better ideas for repair? >> >>Tom Cole >> >>_______________________________________________ >>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a6/d9/d2/41/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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