The darn plastic elbows

[DICK BEATON]

Here is how to do it the easy way....Just get a small soldering iron...20
watt or so with a small tip....Just stick it in and heat the plastic as you
pull on the elbow.  When the plastic melts it will come right out in your
hand...a few seconds each.
Dick RPT

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> From: David ilvedson <ilvey@a.crl.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: The darn plastic elbows
> Date: Saturday, March 01, 1997 12:33 PM
>
> Dear List,
>
> I am replacing a set of elbows on a Winter spinet, (Horace,
> condolences accepted in advance).  Usually they just break up
> into dust and I can snap in the Vagius elbows and be done with
> it, but most of these are soft! and I will have to pop out the
> pin to remove.  I think I remember someone talking about some
> way to make them hard with freon? gas...Am I going crazy......
> I must be to still be working on these things...
>
> ilvey, RPT (David Ilvedson)
> Pacifica, CA