Brass but plates

[John Ross]

It was meant as a direct replacement part.
I just don't like the repair clips 513A, 513B, 513KA and 513KB. They do work, but I have found them to not hold their position. It could be I was doing something wrong. :-(
With the repair flange #517, I can scribe the position for it, remove that section of rail, cut the piece out, and insert the repair flange.
Depending on the job, I sometimes still use the first mentioned flanges. Depends on the piano, the second method is much more time consuming. (More expensive, due to time involved)
If too many are broken, then have the section, duplicated.
I saw a demonstration of annealing the rails to bring the flexibility, back to the rail. I can't remember the temperature you had to bring it to.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KeyKat88 at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:55 PM
  Subject: Re: Brass but plates


  Greetings,

            When you do this, is the part that you install specifically, a repair plate specifically designed to replace the section that you cut out? Does Schaff sell that part as a splice piece? What is the part number?...Because if it is the part that I think it is, then that removes all questions as to the difference between a regular butt replacement do-jiggie and a splice piece, for the brass rail. The Scaff catalog is unclear, and doesnt explain what the repair piece is/does.   

  JUlia Gottshall
  Reading, PA

  In a message dated 7/14/2006 2:39:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca writes:
    I prefer to cut out a section of the rail, and install a repair flange.
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