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face=Georgia><span =
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>Wippen, not elbow!<span style="mso-spacerun: =
yes">
</span>How did you?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Georgia><span =
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>When encountering this on spinets, I have just =
condemned
the pianos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>On a M&H =
console, I
bid (oh, way too little) to replace hammer flanges, entire wippens, and =
entire
damper flanges, including bending the damper wires.<span =
style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Do this on a fine spring day when you’re =
aching to be
outside, and you can achieve masochism =
nirvana.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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size=2 color="#993366" face=Georgia><span =
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#993366'>Lawrence Becker, =
RPT</span></font><font
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face=Georgia><span
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face=Tahoma><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Jeff Olson
[mailto:jlolson@cal.net]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April =
14, 2005
8:30 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> College and =
University
Technicians<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [CAUT] =
Replacing plastic
flange on spinet wippen</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 =
color=black
face=Arial><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I
encountered an "interesting" (as in Chinese curse) repair the =
other
day -- replacing a shattered plastic wippen on a Lester =
"plasticized"
spinet. Didn't want to remove the action, since that promised to =
shatter
more of those wonderful plastic flanges, plus be ridiculously =
time-consuming
(I'd ask how much you all would charge to remove a spinet action and =
repair
this one flange -- along with the others that would likely break -- but =
I
wouldn't want to risk offending the antitrust gods yet =
again:-).</span></font><font
color=black><span =
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font>=
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><font
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style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font>=
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 =
color=black
face=Arial><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Anyhow,
to make a long story short, though no less painful, I finally managed =
to
replace the **($$#@! flange. I won't describe my methods; rather, =
I'm
hoping to hear from anyone here what techniques, magical or scientific =
or
otherwise, they might employ toward this end.</span></font><font =
color=black><span
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font>=
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Best,</span></f=
ont><font
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jeff =
O</span></font><font
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