Wim wrote: >Jim & The list > >I think it would be an adventure if we shared some of our first jobs. Well, there was the first console with seizing plastic flanges that I came across. I tried to zap them, and discovered (surprise!) that they loosened up, but only as long as it took them to cool down. Then I started repinning them by hand, one by one, and put the darned things back in! They didn't have the grace just to break for me, so I'd realize I should replace them with wooden ones. Made three or four visits altogether, each a terrible struggle. What an education! And there was the grand where the lady had put a huge candle on the music desk during a party, and it was in a draft, ate a hole in the side out of sight, and dumped several pounds of wax straight through the action all the way to the keybed. Susan >She told me that 2 years after I finished the job, the Monarch fell >off a truck in Colorado, was repaired, and is now living happily in a saloon >in Old Colorado City, Colorado Springs. > >Willem Blees RPT >St. Louis What a perfect fate for it! It'll do just fine there! Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com
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