<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 8/10/2004 2:29:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, claviers@nxs.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>I prefer new parts whenever feasible.  However, there are those times in an<BR= >old piano when rebushing might be the appropriate thing to do.  Perhaps<BR>rebushing is also temporary, as Bob Davis said, but if it's sti= ll OK after<BR>25 years, and mine have been, I don't call that "temporary".&n= bsp; If a flange<BR>is saturated with tallow, or some other goop that someone h= as soaked it<BR>with in trying to lubricate it, you can bet your boots I'm no= t even going<BR>to try to rebush it.<BR><BR>Jim Ellis </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>   The first time I tried this on an ! 927 L The shanks were siezed again one year later. I soaked the shanks in tolulene before rebushin= g to leech  out the goo but apparently that wasn't enuogh. To each his own experience.</DIV> <DIV>   Dale</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>