Richard One of the side effects of plastic parts is that just before they break, they swell up. If this action has plastic elbows, there is a good chance that the wippen flanges are also plastic, which might be?the reason?the keys are sluggish. Since you have to remove the action anyway to repair the wippens, take a look at the wippen flanges. You might have?another plastic parts replacement job. (Check the hammer but flanges, as well.) BTW. Whenever I have a plastic elbow job, I ALWAYS removed the action. I usually replace the plastic elbows with wooden ones, but even if you use Vagias elbows, I want to have control over what I'm doing. I just don't feel have that when I'm laying on my back, or hunched up under the keybed. To remove the action, you are probably going to?have to remove the keys. So while those are out, I vacuum the dust and dirt out of the piano.?After adjusting lost motion, minor regulation and tuning, it gives me a nice complete job. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: richard.ucci at att.net To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 3:19 am Subject: [pianotech] elbows Hi Yall, ? Replaced a set of elbows yesterday with new plastic ones, (that had been in my car for about 2yrs.or so). Now some of the keys are sluggish etc. Would lubricating the bushing of the elbow help cure? ? No lost motion , also two of the whippen parts where the elbow pins to the action broke(sh**)! What would be?the best way to repair without pulling action? Thanks, RU/UP?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090116/2d113b16/attachment.html>
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